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by cramjabsyn 1091 days ago
I tend to agree, if Debian embraced a longer term support model it would attract a lot of enterprise deployments.

RHEL is something like 10 years while Debian is more like 2, 3 if you push it.
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markfeathers 1091 days ago
Stock debian is 5 years with their LTS project, but they have a paid "ELTS" project that adds an additional 5 years. So 5 years for free, 10 total years as a paid support option. https://wiki.debian.org/DebianReleases
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wazoox 1091 days ago
No, all Debian releases are completely supported 3 years (1 full year after the release of the new stable release) and are LTS for 5 years.
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cramjabsyn 1088 days ago
Yes 2 years is the realistic lifespan in service. 3 is pushing it as part of the last year is spent on planning/upgrading. LTS is sub optimal.
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geerlingguy 1090 days ago
And that is why RHEL is so valuable in enterprise.

When you see people still running PHP 5, or Python 2, and not for tiny little nonprofits either... there are large sums of money being thrown over the wall to support that.

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kjs3 1090 days ago
That's probably because people pay to use RHEL, which funds supporting it for 10 years.
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