@Matt@lemdro.id to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish • 1 year agoMageia 9 releasedwww.mageia.orgmessage-square17fedilinkarrow-up160file-text
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minus-squareAnimortislinkfedilink3•1 year agoI honestly think we need community-managed LTS distros. This is a good start.
minus-squareProdigalFroglinkfedilinkEnglish8•1 year agoDoesn’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.
minus-squareAnimortislinkfedilink6•1 year agoDebian 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.
minus-squareProdigalFroglinkfedilinkEnglish7•1 year ago 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.
minus-square@Sir_Simon_Spamalot@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink1•1 year agoIf that’s your argument, Mageia only supports each of the version for two years since release. I do agree that diversity is good tho.
I honestly think we need community-managed LTS distros. This is a good start.
Doesn’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.
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.