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by jrochkind1 1918 days ago
That used to be what an open source distro was, and there used to be several options for such, no?
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No, there always was an explicit warranty disclaimer and few, if any, distros offered continuous 10-year security updates constrained to a base version. Usually, you had to keep upgrading to keep getting security updates.

Source: spending my teenage years on installing various distros on my dad's computer, simultaneously pissing him off and ensuring I'd never have a girlfriend

lmao :D