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Compared to RHEL/CentOS the Debian release cycle is actually very short, with support for an older version ending just one year after the release of a new stabl
by skrause 13y ago
Compared to RHEL/CentOS the Debian release cycle is actually very short, with support for an older version ending just one year after the release of a new stable version. So in average you will only have support for about 3 years for each release, compared to at least 10 years for RHEL. That's why there has been some discussion about a possible Debian LTS release: http://lwn.net/Articles/565007/ http://lwn.net/Articles/565007/
- fbueno 13y agoMakes sense.
- SwellJoe 13y agoLifecycle cannot be underestimated. The average life expectancy of a server is over 3 years. I'm pretty much running on a five year cycle, right now, for most of mine. It's a huge time cost to have to deploy a new OS more frequently than you deploy new servers.