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I tend to agree, if Debian embraced a longer term support model it would attract a lot of enterprise deployments. RHEL is something like 10 years while Debian
by cramjabsyn 3y ago
I tend to agree, if Debian embraced a longer term support model it would attract a lot of enterprise deployments.
RHEL is something like 10 years while Debian is more like 2, 3 if you push it.
- kjs3 3y agoThat's probably because people pay to use RHEL, which funds supporting it for 10 years.
- geerlingguy 3y agoAnd that is why RHEL is so valuable in enterprise. When you see people still running PHP 5, or Python 2, and not for tiny little nonprofits either... there are large sums of money being thrown over the wall to support that.
- markfeathers 3y agoStock debian is 5 years with their LTS project, but they have a paid "ELTS" project that adds an additional 5 years. So 5 years for free, 10 total years as a paid support option. https://wiki.debian.org/DebianReleases https://wiki.debian.org/DebianReleases
- wazoox 3y agoNo, all Debian releases are completely supported 3 years (1 full year after the release of the new stable release) and are LTS for 5 years.
- cramjabsyn 3y agoYes 2 years is the realistic lifespan in service. 3 is pushing it as part of the last year is spent on planning/upgrading. LTS is sub optimal.