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While I'm not particularly a fan, it's important to make clear the company SUSE (that is, SUSE Linux GmbH) has two distributions. It funds the community-maintained openSUSE distribution, but also has SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES).

openSUSE has a regular ~2 year support window and is probably mostly used by enthusiasts. The commercial SLES product has a 10 year support window (with paid extension for another 3 years).

It's a paid product, but 10+ years of software updates for a stable Linux platform is something that's pretty rare to find, and certainty a great option for certain products. Hopefully I'm corrected on this, but RedHat tends to be the only other vendor supporting Linux distributions for such a long period of time?



Cannonical does 5 years for lts for everyone , likely more for enterprise customers


Shuttleworth announced in November 18.04 will receive 10 years of support as well.


This applies to Ubuntu Core only: https://www.ubuntu.com/core

Standard Ubuntu still has five years: https://www.ubuntu.com/about/release-cycle




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