MattMageia 9 released
AnimortisI honestly think we need community-managed LTS distros. This is a good start.
ProdigalFrogDoesn’t Debian already effectively fill that niche? The 18 months of support that Mageia has isn’t very LTS compared to Debian’s 5 years.
Debian supports their version for two years. Then you need to upgrade.
But I just think more options are always good. Only having one just limits us to a mono-culture if we don't want to go with some corporate solution.
@Animortis The Debian secuiryt team supports releases for 3 years (for as long as its stable (usually 2 years), and then 1 extra year as oldstable).
After that there is a semi-official Debian LTS project that extends support to 5 years, or 10 years if you pay.
Nonetheless, I do think that this process is to finicky and support still isn't as long as corporations would like in their machines.
As much as I dislike Canonical, I think Ubuntu is the correct Debian for business right now.
Debian supports their version for two years. Then you need to upgrade.
According to this, All Debian releases since Debian 6 have had LTS support, which extends support for a total of 5 years.
I stand corrected!
If that’s your argument, Mageia only supports each of the version for two years since release.
I do agree that diversity is good tho.