<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 5:39 AM, David Woodhouse <<a href="mailto:dwmw2@infradead.org">dwmw2@infradead.org</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="im">On Sun, 2009-07-05 at 12:03 +0200, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote: > The CentOS project, or it's upstream, has a release cycle of approximately > three years -not a steady release cycle of three years but that's what it > turns out to be. This disqualifies the distribution(s) as desktop Linux > distributions, as desktops tend to need to run the latest and greatest for > as far the latest and greatest lets them. > > Does that make sense? </div>As a standalone observation, perhaps -- some desktop users often don't want old, stagnant code; they'd prefer the latest bells and whistles. But it makes no sense when considered in conjunction with your apparent desire for an old, stagnant version of Fedora. What makes you think it would be any different? It's not exactly difficult or problematic to update from one version of Fedora to the next. I do it on each of my servers at least once a year (I usually skip a release, but not always). And those are mostly headless, remote boxes. If you want new stuff, run Fedora and do a fairly painless update annually. If you want old stuff, run Centos and update less frequently. I don't see any need for a middle ground. -- David Woodhouse Open Source Technology Centre <a href="mailto:David.Woodhouse@intel.com">David.Woodhouse@intel.com</a> Intel Corporation <div><div></div><div class="h5"> -- fedora-devel-list mailing list <a href="mailto:fedora-devel-list@redhat.com">fedora-devel-list@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list</a> </div></div></blockquote></div> Out of curiosity, don't we have an Extended Life Cycle Fedora version called Red Hat Enterprise Linux and/or CentOS and/or dozens of other similar distros? Why duplicate efforts? Just so it goes under the name "Fedora"? -- Ing. Juan M. Rodriguez Moreno Desarrollador de Sistemas Abiertos Sitio: <a href="http://proyectofedora.org/mexico">http://proyectofedora.org/mexico</a>