long term support release

seth vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Fri Jan 25 16:05:29 UTC 2008


On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 21:42 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Emmanuel Seyman wrote:
> > * Patrice Dumas [25/01/2008 16:48] :
> >> I thought you were speaking about RHEL. But Centos is exactly in the
> >> same case that 'fedora LTS' or fedora itself. Volunteers, no warranty,
> >> no contract.
> > 
> > CentOS doesn't actually do the work of backporting security fixes only.
> > They take the work done by Red Hat and just rebuild the .rpms.
> > 
> > If Fedora LTS happens, it will not have this option.
> 
> .. unless Fedora LTS is a rebuild of RHEL SRPMS. There might be some 
> advantages to this worth considering.
> 

do we need another centos but with a fedora brand? I think the centos
guys are doing a good job, personally.


-sv





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