Debian 6 debuts its long term support period

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The Debian Project                                http://www.debian.org/
Debian 6 debuts its long term support period            [email protected]
June 16th, 2014                 http://www.debian.org/News/2014/20140616
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The Debian project is pleased to announce that the "Long Term Support
(LTS)" infrastructure to provide security updates for Debian GNU/Linux
6.0 (code name "squeeze") until February 2016 is now in place. Users of
this version should follow the instructions from the LTS wiki page=C2=A0[1]
to ensure that they get the LTS security updates.

We would like to thank the volunteers who joined the LTS team=C2=A0[2] and
the organizations which expressed their interest to contribute to the
LTS initiative: AD&D - IntarS Austria=C2=A0[3], Deezer=C2=A0[4], =C3=89lect=
ricit=C3=A9 de
France=C2=A0[5], Freeside=C2=A0[6], Offensive Security=C2=A0[7], Positive I=
nternet=C2=A0[8],
Seznam.cz=C2=A0[9], Sipwise=C2=A0[10], Univention=C2=A0[11], University of =
Oxford=C2=A0[12]
and all the others who will join them in the coming months.

However, to ensure its success and cover more packages, more help is
needed: organizations benefiting from the extended support period are
encouraged to contribute manpower to the LTS team=C2=A0[13]. For
organizations that cannot contribute their own workforce to the LTS
team, Freexian=C2=A0[14] =E2=80=94 a French company owned by Debian Develop=
er Rapha=C3=ABl
Hertzog =E2=80=94 offered to act as an intermediary between organizations
interested in funding LTS work, and individual Debian contributors
preparing LTS security updates. For more information, see Freexian's
description of their proposal=C2=A0[15].

The Debian Project welcomes this initiative, and is generally supportive
of organizations exploring ways to help sustain the LTS project and
Debian in general.

Should Debian 6 LTS be a success, it would be repeated and generalized
so that Debian 7 ("wheezy") and Debian 8 ("jessie") would also benefit
=66rom Long Term Support.

More information can be found in the Debian LTS project's wiki
page=C2=A0[16].


About Debian
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The Debian Project is an association of Free Software developers who
volunteer their time and effort in order to produce the completely free
operating system Debian.


Contact Information
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For further information, please visit the Debian web pages at
https://www.debian.org/, send mail to <[email protected]>, or
contact the LTS team at <[email protected]>.

    1: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/Using
    2: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/Team
    3: http://www.intars.at/
    4: http://www.deezer.com/
    5: http://www.edf.com/
    6: http://freeside.biz/
    7: http://www.offensive-security.com/
    8: http://www.positive-internet.com/
    9: http://www.seznam.cz/
   10: http://www.sipwise.com/
   11: http://www.univention.de/
   12: http://www.ox.ac.uk/
   13: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/Development
   14: http://www.freexian.com
   15: http://www.freexian.com/services/debian-lts.html
   16: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS


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