Not sure this has much impact, but here's our setup. $6 hour.. most employees are liberal enough to break that down to $1/10min. We have a small following of vacationing offices (tourist town) (particularily those who can bill it to expenses), but for the most, they pay their way. It's not as cheap as the cities, but it's a convenience for them, without being a loss for us.
As far as I'm able to discern, it's supply and demand. We have the market for short-term vacationing offices, not full-time leeches.
When Woody was released, Potato continued to receive security updates for (from memory) somewhere between 12 and 18 months. That 'end of life' was reached after the debian security team polled the community to judge whether it was worth the work.
So while I haven't heard of anything akin to Fedora Legacy, woody won't disappear overnight.. security updates will continue for as long as they're worth the effort.
That depends on your sources.list; if your apt lines refer to 'stable', yes apt will try to make the transition. If they refer to 'woody', then woody you shall remain. On any system that's used for real work, the later is much more sane. Upgrade when you've tested that path, not simply when it becomes available.
It means Sarge is a big step closer to becomming the stable branch. Freeze severely narrows the criterea for updates to enter testing; they're now hand-picked by necessity rather than appearing automatically once they've survived unstable long enough.
It's the last big step before a release; at that point, Sarge will become Stable.
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Not sure this has much impact, but here's our setup. $6 hour .. most employees are liberal enough to break that down to $1/10min. We have a small following of vacationing offices (tourist town) (particularily those who can bill it to expenses), but for the most, they pay their way. It's not as cheap as the cities, but it's a convenience for them, without being a loss for us.
As far as I'm able to discern, it's supply and demand. We have the market for short-term vacationing offices, not full-time leeches.
When Woody was released, Potato continued to receive security updates for (from memory) somewhere between 12 and 18 months. That 'end of life' was reached after the debian security team polled the community to judge whether it was worth the work.
.. security updates will continue for as long as they're worth the effort.
So while I haven't heard of anything akin to Fedora Legacy, woody won't disappear overnight
That depends on your sources.list; if your apt lines refer to 'stable', yes apt will try to make the transition. If they refer to 'woody', then woody you shall remain.
On any system that's used for real work, the later is much more sane. Upgrade when you've tested that path, not simply when it becomes available.
It means Sarge is a big step closer to becomming the stable branch. Freeze severely narrows the criterea for updates to enter testing; they're now hand-picked by necessity rather than appearing automatically once they've survived unstable long enough. It's the last big step before a release; at that point, Sarge will become Stable.