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Re:Mysterious safety-tampering malware infects a second site by tsukikage on Thursday April 11, 2019 @05:19AM (#19632349)
Linux doesn't necessarily help here. Ubuntu LTS lifetime is 3-5 years, others are similar; outside this, distro maintainers think nothing of just dropping packages from the distro that the deployment may be relying on, so upgrading is not simple.
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Re:Mysterious safety-tampering malware infects a second site by cesarb on Thursday April 11, 2019 @08:58AM (#19633961)
The difference is that with Linux you can self-support, or pay for someone else to do it, since the whole source code is available to everyone and the licence allows it.

Also, a better comparison would be with RHEL, which has a lifetime of 10 years or more.

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