Re:What do you think of the community/official spl
Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on January 23, 2004 11:33 AM
Well I do see a issue.
You see, Mandrake has always been a community-based distribution both in development and its high regard for the GPL.
What' s new here is that it isn't clear from the announcement whether they will only offer six months of security updates. That is unaceptable and shameful. How can I approach non-profits about moving away from Linux when they will be on a six-month upgrade treadmill?
Even 18 months is way too short a time. This is more disturbing because Mandrake had a longer support cycle when it was a smaller company than now.
I have never really seriously looked at Debian, but it is beginning to look like the only real solution for small non-profits.
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Re:What do you think of the community/official spl
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on January 23, 2004 11:33 AMYou see, Mandrake has always been a community-based distribution both in development and its high regard for the GPL.
What' s new here is that it isn't clear from the announcement whether they will only offer six months of security updates. That is unaceptable and shameful. How can I approach non-profits about moving away from Linux when they will be on a six-month upgrade treadmill?
Even 18 months is way too short a time. This is more disturbing because Mandrake had a longer support cycle when it was a smaller company than now.
I have never really seriously looked at Debian, but it is beginning to look like the only real solution for small non-profits.
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