On Tue, May 10, 2016 3:57 pm, Liam O'Toole wrote: > On 2016-05-10, Valeri Galtsev > <galtsev at kicp.uchicago.edu> wrote: >> >> 1. 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)? Thanks. Valeri > > Liam > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++