the fate of firewire

Tom Diehl tdiehl at rogueind.com
Mon Sep 13 12:44:17 UTC 2004


On Mon, 13 Sep 2004, Daniel Roesen wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 07:40:03PM +1000, Colin Charles wrote:
> > > Is Fedora Legacy on vendor-sec?
> > 
> > Yes, I believe the Team Leader, Jesse Keating is in the know
> 
> Well, I'll take a look how quickly updates got/will be released
> (when having coordinated releases).
> 
> > > And what do you mean with "join"?
> > 
> > Start helping, testing packages, QA, building packages, and so on
> 
> I simply don't have the time for that. In my current situation, my
> Linux servers are workhorses and I want/need to spend as few time
> on maintaining them as possible. Red Hat Linux support cycle has
> worked for that, Fedora doesn't anymore. I've completed the last
> migration from my RHL 7.1 based servers to FC1 based servers a
> couple of weeks ago, and now FC1 is already EOS. Wether Fedora Legacy
> is a viable alternative for prolonged critical upgrade service will
> have to be seen. I'll watch closely how timely security updates will
> be released.

It is not intended to be. fedora-legacy is a volunteer effort. If people
volunteer to do the work it will get done, if not...

> Really, this is not picking on anyone, as after all it's all free
> as in beer. I just need a modern Linux distro with a (basic) support
> cycle of about 3 years. I don't want to reinstall all my servers
> every couple of months. And no, distro-upgrades are no option. Too
> dangerous to end up with a messed-up system. So I usually install
> a replacement server with a new distro version, and subsequently move
> services over, then retire the old box. Worked nicely for 6.2 => 7.1
> => 9 => FC1 up to now.

Based on your above comments, I would submit that you are using the wrong
distro. If you need stability and timely updates then you need something
like RHEL. Don't want to pay for it? Go look at Whitebox, cAoS, Tao, etc.
There are plenty of alternatives without whining about the support of cycle
of fedora. In addition I would suggest you read the fedora web page so that
you will understand what fedora is and is not.

FWIW you can get the RHPW version of RHEL3 for < $100 USD. It only provides
for 30 days of installation support but you get a year of RHN. The downside
to this is that it does not include some of the server packages but they
are available in SRPM format so you can build them yourself. Since there is
no support with the thing you do not have to worry about violating your
support agreement. :-)

Tom





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