On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 10:44:39AM +0200, Christoph Biedl wrote: > Matt Palmer wrote... > > > My > > use-case for LTS, at the very least, is more about keeping existing machines > > running and secure, rather than continuing to deploy squeeze machines onto > > new generations of hardware. > > Agreed. You get a 2010 Linux, it might run on 2015-ish hardware but > don't hold your breath.
Indeed. > Now I'm curious about the sites that have huge installations and > reported interest in squeeze-lts: How does your hardware setup look > like? Do you still deploy new boxes with that old Debian installed? Or > has everything been virtualized so newer kernels are not required, at > least not for hardware support? The vast majority of the machines are virtual, and so hardware support isn't even close to an issue. For the rest, they're running on squeeze-era hardware, for which we keep sufficient spares and/or support contracts on hand to be sure the hardware's going to remain available. If the worst came to the worst, we'd P2V a physical machine rather than try to wedge squeeze onto current generation hardware. Usually, well before we got that far, the customer would have upgraded to a new machine (with an up-to-date OS) anyway. We're yet to have to crash-P2V a customer because we couldn't keep their hardware running (touch wood). - Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
