Jill Rowling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I don't know about FreeBSD but a certain other Unix supplier is keeping
> up-to-date free patches for the last 15 releases of its OS (actually 6 or 7
> releases on two or three hardware platforms with at least two different
> package managers).
> A Debian equivalent would be to offer security patches for all official
> releases, maybe going back about 5 or 6 years.
> I haven't seen this sort of offering from any of the popular Linux distros,
> well not yet anyway.
> It's probably an expensive "free service".
indeed which is one reason many companies are paying money for
support for these unicies rather than using a "free" unix.
Where I work, paying $0 or $100 or $1000 for the OS is
irrelevent, it's the support that matters.
Dave.
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