Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Re: News: No further updates for Debian 5.0 Lenny ("End of Life")

Debian IS a rolling release. A rolling release upgrades the version
occasionally and as the repositories for the previous version catch up to
the newest release it becomes redundant to keep the old one around. At some
point you just catch up to whatever the latest disk is with any rolling
release. In the case of Debian it takes years to reach this point but on
more bleeding edge distros it takes less time.

Roy

Using Kubuntu 11.10, 64-bit
Location: Canada

On 13 February 2012 14:11, Paul <pfrederick1@yahoo.com> wrote:

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> --- In LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com, "g.linuxducks" <g.linuxducks@...>
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> > *No further updates for Debian 5.0 Lenny ("End of Life")*
> > /*The H*/
> > The Debian developers have pointed out, in a announcement on the
> > debian-announce mailing list, that -- three years after it was released
> > -- Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (Lenny) has reached its "End of Life". Debian
> > GNU/Linux 5.0 was originally released in ...
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> http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/No-further-updates-for-Debian-5-0-Lenny-1431999.html
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> I suppose they have to put some kind of arbitrary limits on Linux. Can't
> have it being too good I guess. I hear Gentoo is a rolling distribution
> with no versions and it never hits EOL. When I fix the broken Squeeze
> upgrade on this box maybe I'll try Gentoo out on it myself. If I wanted to
> be forced to upgrade I'd run Windows.
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> If anyone thinks getting Lenny to do this is easy:
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHPKaHLzXes
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> They just haven't seen this yet:
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> http://pastebin.com/cYYqyKPX
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> So I'm afraid I won't be taking their advise and upgrading any time too
> soon here.
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