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Freexian
Company blog · freexian.com/blogprogrammingsystems
Freexian is the company blog at freexian.com, writing about programming and systems. Since 2014, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-23, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (11) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Freexian's pages on paid Debian LTS and extended support, plus its LTS reports, as examples of a company funding Debian maintainers to keep older releases secure.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 11 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Freexian: Services company specialized in Debian GNU/Linux
Most-linked posts?
- /en/services/debian-lts.html3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-08-01
- /services/debian-lts.html2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-03-30
What Hacker News says?
Ah, they advertised non-profit at one point, but I see that's changed. That may have been "we seek no profit" not "non-profit entity". Thanks for the info on this point. Back to LTS: Debian LTS is not handled by the Debian Security and Release teams, but by a separate group of volunteers and companies interested in making it a success. To the point, Freexian is 100% not Debian, not "part" of Debian, it merely uses D…
Comment linking /lts/extended/docs/debian-10-support/
on “Debian 13 “Trixie””Submitted Using JavaScript in Debusine without depending on JavaScript as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThere are some organisations/groups which seem to be effective in actually paying people. There is a group of Debian developers that collect funding and pay Debian developers/maintainers to maintain LTS for Debian releases: https://www.freexian.com/en/services/debian-lts.html https://raphaelhertzog.com/tag/Freexian+LTS/ The FreeBSD Foundation also hires developers to do actual work: https://www.freebsd.org/news/stat…
Comment linking /en/services/debian-lts.html
on “Germany offers up to €30k for 6 months of working on OSS”Submitted Secure Boot Signing with Debusine as a story · 2 points
HN discussionFreexian (R. Hertzog) offers something pertinent (Debian LTS): https://www.freexian.com/services/debian-lts-details.html
Comment linking /services/debian-lts-details.html
on “Paying for Open Source Contributions”Submitted Using JavaScript in Debusine without depending on JavaScript as a story · 1 points
HN discussionFreexian[1] is a software development company that hires developers[2] to work on Debian LTS[3]. The rates appear to be roughly $100/hr[4], which is about $200k/yr. [1] https://www.freexian.com/ [2] https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/Funding [3] https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/ [4] https://www.freexian.com/services/debian-lts.html
Comment linking /services/debian-lts.html
on “Handshake Donates $300k to Debian”Submitted Starting 600 EUR for a Debian Package as a story · 1 points
HN discussionJust wondering, not an attack: did you talk to the Debian project to see what resources (money or person-time) are needed to support a Debian release for a longer time? I am asking, because Debian is a community project and in the end it gives what its community members are putting in. I am wondering about the amount of effort necessary. It seems that they estimate it at one person, full time [1]. Which does not see…
Comment linking /en/services/debian-lts.html
on “GitHub Enterprise 2.0”Submitted Help Debian long term support as a story · 1 points
HN discussionHow good are Freexian / Debian ELTS compared to RHEL for their 10 years support and security fixes? Are they cost effective? https://www.freexian.com/lts/extended/docs/cost-estimation/
Comment linking /lts/extended/docs/cost-estimation/
on “CentOS Linux 7 will reach EOL on Sunday”The LTS team mostly consists of developers paid by Freexian, who are funded by various large and small companies. https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/Team https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/Funding https://www.freexian.com/services/debian-lts.html The LTS project supports most packages and the unsupported subset is specified, with the debian-security-support tool able to report unsupported packages that are installed: https://sals…
Comment linking /services/debian-lts.html
on “CentOS Stream, or Debian?”afaik, your want of relatively fresh software with few patches excludes pretty much everything there is, except for really niche stuff. All other major options with good commercial support have been mentioned by siblings; I'll add Debian + Freexian to the list. https://www.freexian.com
Comment linking /
on “Ubuntu Security Updates Are a Confusing Mess”There is: https://www.freexian.com/en/services/debian-lts.html
Comment linking /en/services/debian-lts.html
on “CentOS dropped because it “was not [..] providing [..] usefulness to Red Hat””p.s. A somewhat similar but specialized arrangement https://www.freexian.com/en/services/debian-lts.html and monthly reports on level of support and work done https://raphaelhertzog.com/tag/Freexian+LTS/
Comment linking /en/services/debian-lts.html
on “Crowd Hiring”This is pretty much how it's always been, LTS gets 5 years of support, then after it goes EOL you can pay Canonical for backported security updates to important packages. What I'm not clear on is the relationship(s) between: * Canonical's LTS lifecycle/extended support scheme, * the linked deb.sury.org repository, * and https://www.freexian.com/lts/php/ It sounds like deb.sury.org is voluntarily halting _their_ PHP…
Comment linking /lts/php/
on “PHP packages for Ubuntu EOL releases put under paywall”
