On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 09:07:34AM -0500, Michael Stone wrote: > On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 03:03:29PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > >My best guess is that things are fine until Debian is the last guy > >left in town, and no one else (upstream, other vendors) support the > >version in stable. Is this correct? > > Mostly. Unfortunately, that is increasingly the case as debian's release > cycles stay long and those of other desktop-oriented distributions grow > shorter. (Server-oriented stuff like RH's enterprise edition has a long > release cycle but *much* less software.) >
BTW, I suspect RHE has a more relaxed policy for security, i.e. major upgrades are allowed when patching obsolete programs is impractical. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
