Hi, both projects (openSUSE LTS and openSUSE Tumbleweed) are interesting. But openSUSE LTS means more work as the maintainer (Hundreds of packages). Any security patches need to be backported. Who can perfect C or C++? Few of us can this do who like to want to get involved and that's not enough. The most important question to openSUSE LTS: How long will it be supported? 3 years or 5 years? The older the system gets, the less interesting it becomes. Since then other problems arise such as: migration problems, because the software is too old. How will you fixed the issue if the software is too old? This happens when a rolling release or shorter update cycle less, because it would be updated automatically the data structure by the software. I have a production server with openSUSE 11.2. I don't have any problem with "zypper dup". Adjustments are quickly done and it still runs today. The server has started with openSUSE 10.3 and I have to added a few openSUSE repositories like Apache, MySQL, PHP, Postfix, etc. (Like a little rolling-release). :-) The openSUSE Tumbleweed is more interesting, because all patches (security related too) are implemented in the next package version and you are always on the latest technical level. This is as interesting as Arch or Gentoo. Only lazy and strict conservative people have an LTS version. :-) <javascript:void(0);> -- Kind regards, Sebastian - openSUSE Member (Freespacer) Website/Blog: <http://www.sebastian-siebert.de> Important notes on openSUSE Mailing List: <http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Mailing_list_netiquette> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org