So… openSUSE does not offer a long term support option. Am I right?
The only way to have LTS is to install SLED or SLES?
Just curious…
tb
So… openSUSE does not offer a long term support option. Am I right?
Nope, you’re wrong. openSUSE does have a long term support version: Evergreen, see here: https://en.opensuse.org/Evergreen
https://en.opensuse.org/Tumbleweed - It’s more of a rolling distribution rather than an LTS.
And then there’s Evergreen ( https://en.opensuse.org/Evergreen )
Other than that, fork out money for SLES.
Yeah this is bound to be a hurdle for users who are used to Ubuntu and its support cycle.
I mean yes I understand that Novell has a commercial version that it likes us to pay for and they like to promote but for Ubuntu users they are used to the long term support cycle.
Good thing tumbleweed exists though! 
Yeah Tumblewweed is not a LTS but rolling release is something I can deal with, thanks to my days on good ol debian.
On 2013-03-22 10:26, MadmanRB wrote:
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> Yeah this is bound to be a hurdle for users who are used to Ubuntu and
> its support cycle.
> I mean yes I understand that Novell has a commercial version that it
> likes us to pay for and they like to promote but for Ubuntu users they
> are used to the long term support cycle.
> Good thing tumbleweed exists though!
Tumbleweed is not a valid comparison. The equivalent is Evergreen, that
is an LTS. With support coming from the community, not from the main
sponsor.
TW is a flavour of factory.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.1 x86_64 “Asparagus” at Telcontar)
No I am aware of that, I am just saying that Tumbleweed seems like a good option if you want to keep up to date.
On 2013-03-22 16:36, MadmanRB wrote:
> No I am aware of that, I am just saying that Tumbleweed seems like a
> good option if you want to keep up to date.
Yes, it is a fine and valid option for keeping up to date.
But it is not what the people wanting an LTS look for 
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.1 x86_64 “Asparagus” at Telcontar)
Yes, for keeping up to date [and beyond, for a very limited time only offer.]
+1 for Evergreen as the “longer term supported” option for openSUSE. It’s very well maintained by the project, as I found with 11.4 and still delivering.
tb wrote:
> So… openSUSE does not offer a long term support
option. Am I right?
> The only way to have LTS is to install SLED or
SLES?
> Just curious…
…of course not, you can use evergreen. there’s a
Portal on our wiki. now it stays on 11.4.
Good morning, sorry if my question will be off-topic… but what versions after 11.4 will be supported by the Evergreen Project?
It’s usually announced on the Wiki’s Evergreen portal, so until then…
I hope they do 12.2 when the time comes [not interested in 12.1 - the first of the current series]. It’s a bit early for judging 12.3 long term.
On 03/23/2013 07:56 AM, creatura85 wrote:
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> Good morning, sorry if my question will be off-topic… but what
> versions after 11.4 will be supported by the Evergreen Project?
that has been under discussion lately on the Evergreen mail list…
read it in the archive:
http://lists.rosenauer.org/pipermail/evergreen/2013-March/001068.html
afair it has not 100% decided but i think it will be 13.1, the
alternatives were/are 12.3 or 13.2–there are pros and cons for each…
i would suppose once the decision is made it will be shown on the
projects wiki page, http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Evergreen
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dd
Loving Evergreen!
Thank you for your answers, it seems that 12.3 will be the next Evergreen Geeko. From my point of view i will have to update to 12.3 and then when 12.3 to use evergreen.
It will be either 12.2 or 3, as openSUSE 12.1 was a horrid release sorry to say.
Yes, but if you look at the Evergreen mailing list comments @dd linked to above, they don’t want 12.2, so 12.3 or 13.1 are candidates.
Well 12.3 then.
Though sad that 12.2 will be skipped out as it too was really rock solid.
On 2013-03-23 20:26, MadmanRB wrote:
> Though sad that 12.2 will be skipped out as it too was really rock
> solid.
It overlaps too much.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.1 x86_64 “Asparagus” at Telcontar)
Perhaps, still hate to see such a great release go to waste.
On 2013-03-24 02:46, MadmanRB wrote:
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> robin_listas;2540055 Wrote:
>> On 2013-03-23 20:26, MadmanRB wrote:
>>
>>> Though sad that 12.2 will be skipped out as it too was really rock
>>> solid.
>>
>> It overlaps too much.
> Perhaps, still hate to see such a great release go to waste.
It is not so great IMNSHO
Ok, here goes an important reason: systemd is not mature in 12.2, that’s
an important reason for rejecting it. Remember that Evergreen is mainly
important for server type machines.
Another is that evergreen project resources are very limited, so
maintaining two releases simultaneously is really an issue.
Me, I would like to have overlaps, so that we’d have time to decide and
switch over. But I can’t have everything.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.1 x86_64 “Asparagus” at Telcontar)
Hi guys, i’m really pleased to have found this topic. I was just hoping to hear from some users who’ve used evergree, how does evergree compare with Debian stable.
I’m using Slackware at the moment, but i really like Opensuse, but also like debians stable release, but dislike other things about Debian. In particular i’d like to know about updates. Opensuse gives me to many updates for my liking, even when i’m doing zypper patch, but Debian and Slackware give me very little. So as i said, how’s Evergreen compare with Debian stable?