Re: long term support release

[Jarod Wilson <jwilson redhat com>]

On Friday 25 January 2008 11:05:29 am seth vidal wrote:
> 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.

I believe the trick is to just have the CentOS folks rename CentOS to Fedora 
LTS and otherwise just keep on doing what they've been doing... :)


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Jarod Wilson
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