On Mon, 2007-24-09 at 18:55 +0200, Eberhard Roloff wrote: > Greg Freemyer wrote: > > All, > > > > I installed 10.2 on a couple machines this month. Just realized they > > will go out of support in 15 months. > > > > Amazing how a 2-year commitment turns into a 15-month reality. > > > > Also, given the recent release cycle, only 2 new openSUSE releases > > will come out in that 15-months. ie. 10.3 in a couple weeks, and 11.0 > > 10 months later. > > > > Effectively to stay supported we need to upgrade every other release. > > ie. I assume when 10.2 loses support at the end of 2008, 11.0 will > > still be the latest. > > > > When there was a release every 6 months, we could just upgrade every > > fourth release and stay with supported releases. > > > > We've all seen releases we would just as soon skip. What if you get > > two of those in a row now? > > > > Greg > Hi Greg, > > don't forget that you do not pay for what you get with OpenSUSE. > If you want to use stable releases for long than there are always SLED > and SLES waiting. > > Futhermore, if you do not want to pay, but still stay long with a > supported release, you can always use Ubuntu LTS.
I tried SLED10 and liked it, really liked it. What stopped me from buying was (and maybe I'm wrong here) is that you pay every year so you can get updates. The concept is fine for businesses, but for me the home/College user, that's money I don't really want to pay. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
