Re: Let's say you never want to upgrade from Lenny...

On 2011-04-05 09:56:13 Mark wrote:
Hypothetically if a user doesn't want to upgrade to Squeeze, what would they
have to do once Lenny stops being supported by Debian?

Eventually, they will get owned and become a zombie that SPAMs (or worse) the
rest of us. Depending on the amount of effort you are capable of, this may be
decades later. By the time an oldstable is retired, it has already had a lot
of attacks thrown at it and hasn't had new code introduced in quite a while.
But, eventually, it will happen; sometimes exploits have come out mere weeks
after an oldstable is retired that affects the software in it.

Please don't use Lenny after Debian drops security support. If you need more
support than Debian provides and <= 5 years, install an Ubuntu LTS. If you
need more than 5 years of security support, look into SLE* or RHEL. You can
get up to 10 years on security support on a SLE* release.
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