On 2016-05-10, Valeri Galtsev galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu wrote:
On Tue, May 10, 2016 3:57 pm, Liam O'Toole wrote:
On 2016-05-10, Valeri Galtsev galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu wrote:
- Debian (and clones): you keep the components of the system pretty
much on the level of latest release of each of components. Therefore "upgrade" to new release of the system is pretty close to just a regular routine update.
You are describing Debian sid/unstable, which is contunuously updated, and where there are no releases in the usual sense of the word. Debian stable releases are a different matter, and correspond very closely to major releases of RHEL/CentOS. There is always an upgrade path between consecutive releases of Debian stable.
Yes, LTS, thanks Liam. Only LTS has life cycle of mere 2 years, whereas RHEL (hence CentOS) is what, 10 years? I was pretty sure Debian does not backport patches (of Linuxes no one except RH, as far as I know). How do they do it with LTS? Do they just freeze major version, no matter what (it is only 2 years the need)?
Others have complained that this is not the place for an extended discussion on Debian, so I'll just direct you here:
If you have any questions, I suggest you post them to debian-user. I am subscribed to that list, and will be happy to resume the conversation there.