long term support release

Sean Bruno sean.bruno at dsl-only.net
Wed Jan 23 03:25:00 UTC 2008


On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 22:16 -0500, David Mansfield wrote:
> I'm fairly new to this list so if this is flame-bait, then I apologize.
> I was wondering whether there is any possibility of having the
> occasional 'long term support' (LTS) release of Fedora (say one every
> two years or something) so that users can settle down with the distro
> and actually become productive with it.  
> 
> Say the LTS cycle is one release every two years (every fourth Fedora
> release), and that the 'long term' for support only lasts for two years
> (which is pretty short to use the term long for, I realize), then there
> would only be one LTS release, and also the most current release to
> worry about at any given time.
> 

> 
To be honest, that's more or less what RHEL and the free rebuild CentOS
are.  

Fedora is a sandbox of sorts.  It's a place where applications come
together and sometimes, where they come to die.  :)

Sean




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