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Alan Serrano Peña
Aug 1, 2023, 4:20:06 PM8/1/23
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Good afternoon, I have a question about Debian versions. Is there a commercial version of Debian? Any version with technical support? I was reading on the website that there is a version called Debian LTS, specifically Debian 10 "Buster," but I'm not sure if this version meets what I'm asking for. I hope you can help me or even explain a little more about LTS and the "Buster" version.
I hope you can assist me as I don't have much knowledge about this operating system
Timothy M Butterworth
Aug 1, 2023, 5:00:07 PM8/1/23
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On Tue, Aug 1, 2023 at 4:15 PM Alan Serrano Peña <al...@tecva.net> wrote:
Good afternoon, I have a question about Debian versions. Is there a commercial version of Debian? Any version with technical support? I was reading on the website that there is a version called Debian LTS, specifically Debian 10 "Buster," but I'm not sure if this version meets what I'm asking for. I hope you can help me or even explain a little more about LTS and the "Buster" version.I hope you can assist me as I don't have much knowledge about this operating system
LTS: All Debian releases are LTS. If you are doing a new install it is better to install the latest version of Debian which is Bookworm.
You can purchase support for Debian from a Debian Partner https://www.debian.org/partners/ or a Debian Consultant: https://www.debian.org/consultants/
Danial Behzadi
Aug 1, 2023, 5:50:06 PM8/1/23
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Good afternoon, I have a question about Debian versions. Is there a commercial version of Debian? Any version with technical support?
No, Debian is a free software, but you can get commercial support from third-parties.
I was reading on the website that there is a version called Debian LTS, specifically Debian 10 "Buster," but I'm not sure if this version meets what I'm asking for. I hope you can help me or even explain a little more about LTS and the "Buster" version.
LTS is just the old-stable release with security repos.
Paul Wise
Aug 1, 2023, 10:11:31 PM8/1/23
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On Tue, 2023-08-01 at 13:50 -0600, Alan Serrano Peña wrote:
> Is there a commercial version of Debian?
> Any version with technical support?
The Debian project provides the Debian operating system for free and
> Is there a commercial version of Debian?
> Any version with technical support?
provides technical support for free by volunteers. In addition, there
are a number of people and companies providing paid support for Debian.
https://www.debian.org/support
https://www.debian.org/consultants/
https://lists.debian.org/debian-consultants/
Outside Debian there are companies producing operating systems based on
Debian and providing commercial support for those operating systems,
probably the biggest example is Ubuntu provided by Canonical:
https://ubuntu.com/
https://canonical.com/
> I was reading on the website that there is a version called Debian
> LTS, specifically Debian 10 "Buster," but I'm not sure if this
> version meets what I'm asking for. I hope you can help me or even
> explain a little more about LTS and the "Buster" version.
following release and releases occur approximately every two years, so
Debian releases have approximately three years of security support. The
Debian LTS effort aims to extend the security support available to each
Debian release to at least 5 years. The LTS project is done using
funding contributed by the Freexian company, but their efforts are
distributed for free. Outside of Debian, Freexian extends security
support for Debian releases to up to 10 years. The ELTS results are
distributed for free, but only customers can choose what is supported.
https://wiki.debian.org/LTS
https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/Funding
https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/Extended
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pabs
https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
Dominik George
Aug 2, 2023, 2:30:06 AM8/2/23
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Hi,
> Outside Debian there are companies producing operating systems based on
> Debian and providing commercial support for those operating systems,
> probably the biggest example is Ubuntu provided by Canonical:
>
> https://ubuntu.com/
> https://canonical.com/
Yet, if at all possible, you should avoid Ubuntu.
It is, as explained above, a copy of Debian, with little to no added value, but with quite a lot of bugs and issues added on top.
In addition, Canonical is a hostile company working against and exploiting the community, e.g. by persecuting people who criticise Ubuntu online or provide derivatives of Ubuntu themselves. Their most recent hostile move is grabbing security updates from Debian and putting them behind a paywall.
Hence, there's a simple recommendation: If you need your Debian support contractor to have the name Canonical, so much that you are willing to pay ransom for security updates provided by Debian for free, then use Ubuntu. If not, use Debian, and hire a benevolent consultant.
-nik
It is, as explained above, a copy of Debian, with little to no added value, but with quite a lot of bugs and issues added on top.
In addition, Canonical is a hostile company working against and exploiting the community, e.g. by persecuting people who criticise Ubuntu online or provide derivatives of Ubuntu themselves. Their most recent hostile move is grabbing security updates from Debian and putting them behind a paywall.
Hence, there's a simple recommendation: If you need your Debian support contractor to have the name Canonical, so much that you are willing to pay ransom for security updates provided by Debian for free, then use Ubuntu. If not, use Debian, and hire a benevolent consultant.
-nik
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