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Glad to see Wheezy finally become Stable. I used to run Debian on a PowerPC Mac as my main desktop system and today I still use a "portable server" Palm Pre Pl
by networked 14y ago
Glad to see Wheezy finally become Stable.
I used to run Debian on a PowerPC Mac as my main desktop system and today I still use a "portable server" Palm Pre Plus running Squeeze chroot on a regular basis. In my experience Debian is really great on non-x86 hardware. Too bad the old webOS kernel means I won't be able to upgrade it to Wheezy, at least not easily.
That said, I wish Debian would compete with Ubuntu LTS on longer support for OldStable. (Ubuntu LTS releases are now supported for five years [1] while a Debian Stable release is expected to get three years of support [2].)
[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LTS https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LTS
[2] http://wiki.debian.org/DebianReleases http://wiki.debian.org/DebianReleases
- mafro 14y agoI'm not sure where you got three years support bit from (could you point me?) Linked from the DebianReleases page you listed: Q: How long will security updates be provided? A: The security team tries to support a stable distribution for about one year after the next stable distribution has been released, except when another stable distribution is released within this year. It is not possible to support three distributions; supporting two simultaneously is already difficult enough. [1] http://www.debian.org/security/faq#lifespan http://www.debian.org/security/faq#lifespan
- jmillikin 14y agoThe expected duration between stable releases is two years, so "one year after the next stable" is three years.