Downgrading To Older Version

[Colin Law]

On 2 March 2012 16:51, Frank Gore <gore at fpzmedia.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 11:40 AM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
>>
>> Could I recommend you switch to another distro, like Ubuntu or Fedora,
>> where you can get 2.4.10?
>>
>> Depending on which features of 2.4.x you have been using, going back to
>> 2.2.x may or may not be possible.
>
> I'm sick of the upgrade carousel and the quickly-expired product
> support of free distributions. Everytime I upgrade to a new distro,
> some new thing is broken and ends up frustrating me to no end. These
> Gnucash issues in openSUSE 12.1 are a prime example of that, it's like
> the openSUSE devs didn't bother checking to see if it worked before
> releasing. And it took them endless months to finally resolve "most"
> of the problems.
>
> Our business can't keep jumping through these hoops at every distro
> release cycle. This is why we're looking at long-term supported Linux
> distributions like SLED or RHELD. I see that Gnucash 2.4 is available
> in the EPEL repo for RedHat 6, so we might go that route instead. But
> I'd much rather stay within the SLE family since our server runs SLES
> 11.

The LTS versions of Ubuntu are supported for 3 years, but starting
with 12.04 (to be released in April) it will be 5 years.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LTS

Colin