plans for long term support releases?

[Ian Burrell]

On 1/16/07, Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 15:50:47 +0000,
>   Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I agree with this point. Fedora is a very aggressive distribution and
> > trying to extend the lifetime by switching to a "try not to break
> > anything by patching old versions" at the end of a distro life is wrong
> > in my opinion.
>
> I think it would be much better to spend effort in making upgrading Fedora
> easier and safer, so that people have less desire/need to stick with old
> versions of Fedora.
>

Also, EPEL means that RHEL and Centos can get most of the extra
packages from Fedora.  Right now, there is a choice between bleeding
edge but lots of packages, and stability and fewer ones.

 - Ian