Re: long term support release

[Andrew Farris <lordmorgul gmail com>]

David Mansfield wrote:
> You're not suggesting I use the 'Other Well Known Distro' are you?
> Seriously, though, on my latest laptop I tried CentOS 5, and it was
> awful on a laptop.  Synaptic problems, networkmanager problems, crappy
> wireless support (out of date) etc.  I killed it in about a week.  I
> also tried the Other distro and as a Fedora (and Red Hat Linux before
> that) guy, it just doesn't do it for me.  Old dog, new tricks.  It
> lasted about a month. That said, updating every 6 months doesn't do it
> for me either.  What's a Fedora lover to do?

You could skip every other Fedora release and get a full year between your 
upgrades, still getting the lastest security patches the whole time.  F7 doesn't 
go to EOL until F9 releases.

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