A good number of years, actually.
Dapper was tagged as having long term support, because it was a very stable release. (Except that mess of an update which they thankfully cleaned up nice and quickly).
Edit:
5 years for servers... I think 3 for desktop.
Hehe...
I love the totally broken demonstration of Compiz at the end of that video.
I have seen a bit of Compiz lately, and, when it works, it is amazing. It doesn't work on Intel's horrible integrated chips, though.
It has superior eye candy to Vista and OSX (if we forget how unfun it is to get going), including a really cool stretchy windows feel.
Instead of Vista's style of glass windows, they're more like thin plastic; lots of funny bending and flopping and flexing effects happening, as well as the nice drop shadows and blurry transparency stuff.
It gives the desktop a very lively feel and completely destroys productivity. Instead of coding, you'll be playing with windows :)
Dapper was tagged as having long term support, because it was a very stable release. (Except that mess of an update which they thankfully cleaned up nice and quickly).
Edit:
5 years for servers... I think 3 for desktop.
Hehe...
I love the totally broken demonstration of Compiz at the end of that video.
I have seen a bit of Compiz lately, and, when it works, it is amazing. It doesn't work on Intel's horrible integrated chips, though.
It has superior eye candy to Vista and OSX (if we forget how unfun it is to get going), including a really cool stretchy windows feel.
Instead of Vista's style of glass windows, they're more like thin plastic; lots of funny bending and flopping and flexing effects happening, as well as the nice drop shadows and blurry transparency stuff.
It gives the desktop a very lively feel and completely destroys productivity. Instead of coding, you'll be playing with windows :)