Re:Thanks, Microsoft, but I’m still saying no to Windows 10
by oneweekwonder on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @03:14PM
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CentOS 5 was released in 2007 and had maintenance updates till march this year[0].
Nobody forces gnu/linux users to upgrade. I know of happy CentOS 4 users; atleast they have the source to their os.
You are only forced to upgrade if you want the latest features and support for security fixes.
Microsoft is getting "blame" because it leaves you with binaries and a broken upgrade path.
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CentOS#End-of-support_schedule
Re:Thanks, Microsoft, but I’m still saying no to Windows 10
by slrz on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @04:20PM
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If you care about long support times, you'd use an "enterprise" distribution and get exactly the same support periods (about 10 years) as with Windows or Solaris. This is no coincidence.
Windows 7 was released in 2009 and has received free support for years. In contrast, when did Ubuntu 9.04 (also released in 2009) lose security backports?
Perhaps Ubuntu 9.04 isn't a "fair" comparison, since most Ubuntu releases aren't designed for long support and the community recognizes this fact. But even then, the Ubuntu 10.04 LTS release (long-time support) was in 2010, and its support ended in 2015.
The mindset of "blame Microsoft" is quite annoying, when every darn Linux user is basically subjected to the "forced upgrade cycle" way faster.