Example: Fedora Rawhide, Ubuntu Latest, Debian Stable

  • Soviet Pigeon@lemmygrad.ml
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    4 months ago

    I dont have a list, but I usually use this site. It also does not only show Linux distributions, but also software products like nginx, mariadb or programming languages like go, rust and python.

    Edit: Some Linux distributions habe older software, which they support with security updates and also stay on one kernel version. Fedora as example gives you a new kernel after few weeks. Maybe you can be more concrete

  • OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml
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    4 months ago

    Holy smokes people are mad at this thread. I genuinely don’t know why. It’s a valid and good question to have.

    Here’s something to get started, although I don’t use any of these so take it with a grain of salt:

    1. Fedora LTS: Approximately 6 months.
    2. openSUSE Leap: Approximately 8 months
    3. Linux Mint LTS: 2 years
    4. Ubuntu LTS: 2 years
    5. Debian: Approximately 2-3 years
    6. RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux): Approximately 3-5 years.
    7. SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE): Approximately 3-5 years
    • biribiri11@lemmy.ml
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      4 months ago

      I think it’d also be good to document:

      Alpine and NixOS: both 6 months

      Minor releases of RHEL: 6 months

      Non LTS Ubuntu: 6 months

      The question also brings up Fedora rawhide. Fedora rawhide never has releases, though its version is always the current latest branched release (not necessarily stable/beta/alpha) + 1.

      Since the pace of development was also brought up:

      Fedora Rawhide and ELN (same package set) -> Fedora Stable after ~2-3 months of being “stabilized” (this stabilization period has periodic “freezes” which is why bad versions of XZ never made it into Fedora 40’s beta)

      Fedora Rawhide and ELN (same package set) -> CentOS Stream (currently unclear how long it takes to go from branched to full release, though it was branched months ago from ELN) -> RHEL every 6 months

      AlmaLinux releases are tagged from CentOS stream every 6 months, and patched with security updates. When a new version releases, the current minor release is immediately EOL’d, unlike RHEL. Rocky is the same. Both have extra support services from third parties. RHEL offers EUS releases for every other minor release (as of RHEL 9).

      It’s a common misconception that Fedora stable releases become CentOS Stream releases. This pattern was true pre-CentOS stream, but now, for the most part, CentOS Stream and Fedora stable might share a few patches at most, but their development timelines are different. They branch directly off the rolling Fedora Rawhide/ELN trunk.

      Debian unstable -> Debian testing (auto-promoted after 2 weeks iirc) -> Ubuntu stable or Debian stable