plans for long term support releases?

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Wed Jan 17 09:11:22 UTC 2007


Thomas M Steenholdt wrote:

>>
> Right now it may be the same thing, but if Fedora continues to evolve to 
> something *larger* than a bleeding edge RHEL/CentOS, as there's been 
> much talk about recently (realistically or not?!?), it would be great to 
> have something to handle these cases with a real Fedora.

I am not sure what bleeding edge RHEL means. Do you believe Fedora can 
work out a even longer lifecycle? What exactly are the benefits to users?

> I completely agree that right now, for my servers, RHEL/CentOS is 
> probably exactly what I'm looking for. And that's also why most my 
> servers actually run RHEL today.
> 
> Also, this may not be doable (right now or ever), I'm mentioning it as 
> something to be *considered*, because there are enough of users out 
> there who could do with longer periods of active maintenance for their 
> servers.

Question though is about not just enough users but enough contributors 
to do the work.

Rahul




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