plans for long term support releases?

seth vidal skvidal at linux.duke.edu
Tue Jan 16 20:22:53 UTC 2007


On Tue, 2007-01-16 at 18:19 -0200, Evandro Fernandes Giovanini wrote:
> Em Ter, 2007-01-16 às 11:50 -0500, Jesse Keating escreveu:
> > >
> > > Now, the situation as it had persisted thoughout recent years is about
> > > to change again: Core seems (?) to be in progress of being opened.
> > > I.e. it's up to you+RH to pick up this opportunity to change something
> > > about "Legacy". I am offering to contribute to a "Legacy within Fedora"
> > >
> > > Unfortunately you and Warren seem to be choke this option once more. So
> > > be it - Your decision.
> > 
> > That's because at least I don't see the need to try and hammer the square 
> > Fedora peg into the LTS hole.  Especially when there are nice round pegs like 
> > RHEL with actual support and SLAs or CentOS with a large and vibrant 
> > community, both of which are based on Fedora, that fit perfectly into that 
> > LTS hole.  Why continue beating a square peg into a round hole?
> > 
> 
> This is closely related to a marketing problem Fedora has - a lot of
> people think it's a beta distribution. Probably one of Fedora's biggest
> problems still.
> 
> Personally I think it would be interesting to see the CentOS project
> merge with Fedora, to provide a Fedora "LTS" or whatever. Then all the
> people that complain about Fedora's lack of stability would be told to
> install a different Fedora product, instead of something from a totally
> separate project.
> 
> I think it's obvious the demand for what CentOS provides is there, and
> there's more than enough people willing to contribute to it.
> 

Centos is a pure rebuild of the srpms released with RHEL. Then centos
adds on tools in separate distros to support the distro.

-sv





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