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From: Randall Parker 

Does anyone here choose a distro based on your expectation of how long you'll
be able to get security updates without having to do a major version upgrade?

For example, Fedora just dropped support for Fedora Core 4. Fedora Core 5 came
out in March 2006 and Fedora Core 6 came out in October 2006. Anything you
installed before March 2006 isn't going to get fixes for security patches if
you were getting them from the Fedora project.

I'd rather be able to install a Linux release and then for years afterward
download and install updates periodically without having to burn a DVD to do a
major upgrade.

So how do other free distros compare to Fedora on this score? Does Ubuntu or
Kbuntu do a better job of this? How about Debian?

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