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Debian 6 Debuts Its Long Term Support Period

posted by LaminatorX on Wednesday June 18 2014, @11:40AM   Printer-friendly
from the If-ya-know-what-I-mean dept.

Blackmoore writes:

Debian 6 debuts its long term support period

June 16th, 2014

The Debian project is pleased to announce that the "Long Term Support (LTS)" infrastructure to provide security updates for Debian GNU/Linux 6.0 (code name "squeeze") until February 2016 is now in place. Users of this version should follow the instructions from the LTS wiki page to ensure that they get the LTS security updates.

 
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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 18 2014, @04:01PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 18 2014, @04:01PM (#57001)

    This summary is a confusing... something announced to be "Long Term"
    that last to 1.5 year from now... 1.5 year is not a long time/term...
    I would say 10 years is a normal time and 20 years is a long time, personally I prefer things that last a long time.

    What should have been mentioned in the summary is that Debian 6.0 was released 2011, so its support is (not very long but I guess usable) 5 years.

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  • (Score: 1) by oostertoaster on Wednesday June 18 2014, @08:39PM

    by oostertoaster (3378) on Wednesday June 18 2014, @08:39PM (#57120)

    I agree the terminology is confusing, but it's not the summary's fault, it's the terminology that Debian used. Probably more accurate to think of it as Debian 6 shifting to "Extended Support" or something.

  • (Score: 1) by khedoros on Thursday June 19 2014, @09:51PM

    by khedoros (2921) on Thursday June 19 2014, @09:51PM (#57634)
    I would say 10 years is a normal time and 20 years is a long timeI'd say that that's an unreasonable thing to say. Wikipedia [wikipedia.org] has a list of open-source software with "long-term support" (along with a definition of the term). "Normal time" seems to be measured in weeks or months, and "LTS" in years.