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S410@kbin.social 11 months agoLiterally most of them. All the big ones like Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, OpenSUSE, Arch, etc. are 10+ years old and still get updates pretty much daily.
Debian had its 30th birthday back in September, actually.
mammut@lemmy.world 11 months ago
S410@kbin.social 11 months ago
It's not really comparable to the way Windows versioning works. Releases of distros like Debian are closer to Service Packs on Windows: they're just a bunch of updates bundled together.
Alternatively, you can use Debian Sid or Arch, for example, and get all the changes as they're being made. That way, you get a lot of smaller updates a lot more often.
FaceDeer@kbin.social 11 months ago
Whatever you want to call it, version or service pack, the point is that you're going to need to be using a relatively recent one to get that free support.
S410@kbin.social 11 months ago
You do, in fact, need to accept support to benefit from it. Those releases are the support. They are the updates.
Sometimes people or companies retire their distros (e.g. Mandriva), or just do stupid decisions that piss of their users (CentOS) and force the users to switch to a different distro. This, however, is extremely rare. Microsoft do that on a schedule.