Rajkumar S wrote: > Hi, > > I am doing a comparative study of support times of various OS. So I > would like to know when various stable releases were released and for > how long were they supported? MS and Redhat has released their plans at > > http://www.redhat.com/apps/support/errata/rhlas_errata_policy.html > http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=fh;[ln];LifeWin > > I know that Debian development process is not tuned for release dates > and such, but these are the information about Debian I am looking for.
From: http://cvs.infodrom.org/calendar/calendar.infodrom.debian?cvsroot=infodrom /* Debian releases */ Oct 26 Debian GNU/Linux 0.93R6 released, 1995 Dec 11 Infomagic and Debian announce the botching of Debian 1.0, 1995 Jun 17 Debian GNU/Linux 1.1 alias ``buzz'' released, 1996 Dec 12 Debian GNU/Linux 1.2 alias ``rex'' released, 1996 Jun 5 Debian GNU/Linux 1.3 alias ``bo'' released, 1997 Jul 24 Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 alias ``hamm'' released, 1998 Mar 9 Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 alias ``slink'' released, 1999 Aug 15 Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 alias ``potato'' relased, 2000 Jul 19 Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias ``woody'' released, 2002 For the last two releases, support ended (will end) about one year after the successor has been released, i.e. support for potato ended on Jul 19th, 2003. Regards, Joey -- Reading is a lost art nowadays. -- Michael Weber
