Talk:Long-term support

Remove CentOS etc
As per the intro, "...the term long-term-support is usually reserved for special versions or editions of software that 'otherwise has a much shorter release life cycle''...".

Accordingly, I'd like to remove CentOS, Scientific Linux and Eclipse, because as far as I can see they don't have any special LTS version - just a longer support cycle for every release. (Yes, Eclipse is planning to have one, but it doesn't seem to exist yet)

My thought is to rename the table to: "Software with separate LTS versions", but preface it with something like:
 * "Many projects, such as CentOS, provide a long period of support for every release, but this table only lists those have a specific LTS version in addition to their normal release cycle".

Thoughts? Snori (talk) 07:26, 20 July 2014 (UTC)

Debian
This is a tricky one. Yes, there is since April 2014 "Squeeze-LTS", but it's not really a separate release, and "a few packages will not be supported in the LTS version of the release..." etc.

It looks as if, like RHEL and CentOS, they'll be taking the "all our releases have long term support" route - which sort of makes it meaningless compared to the kernel and Ubuntu. However, given that they themselves are using the LTS moniker, it probably needs to go into the table - but with some notes regards the above points. Snori (talk) 22:03, 24 July 2014 (UTC)

External links modified
Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified 2 external links on Long-term support. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20131217042310/http://www.linuxmint.com/oldreleases.php to http://www.linuxmint.com/oldreleases.php
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20141005231742/http://ltsi.linuxfoundation.org/what-is-ltsi to http://ltsi.linuxfoundation.org/what-is-ltsi

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

Cheers.— InternetArchiveBot  (Report bug) 18:42, 5 January 2018 (UTC)

Reference to "Short term release" seems out of date
The reference to "short term release" references Joomla, who no longer uses this term as per this page: https://docs.joomla.org/What_version_of_Joomla!_should_you_use%3F The references I tend to see in linux and open source communities are to "interim" or "rolling" releases, or releases on a temporal frequency (monthly, annual, etc.).

Should this term be changed, or this section updated / extended?

Cheer! 96.255.239.86 (talk) 13:59, 13 May 2020 (UTC)