On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 09:48:56PM -0800, John Andersen wrote:
On Wednesday 20 September 2006 14:31, Keith Roberts wrote:
f ( (release_9_2 < release9_3) == six_months AND (release_9_3 < release10_0) == six_months AND (release_10_0 < release10_1) == six_months AND (release_10_1 < release10_2) == six_months AND ReleaseLifeTimeWithUpdates == two_years )
THEN CustomerSatisfaction = true ELSE CustomerSatisfaction = false
Personally I would rather have fewer releases. I spend a lot of time updating systems. Because of staggered installation versions, not all machines need upgrade at once.
But I begin to ask myself, what do I gain by moving from 9.2 to 10.2? For server class machines, the answer is virtually nothing.
Yet I can't responsibly continue to operate a system for which security patches will no longer be available. I'm forced into an upgrade on a production system.
On desktop system, I might gain something, not a great deal.
I'd much prefer a patch AND upgrade in-place for a given period of time - say 5 years minimum. I like the Ubuntu Long Term Support promise.
This is what SLES and SLED are for... Ciao, Marcus