long term support release

[Les Mikesell]

Jesse Keating wrote:

>>> If an "LTS" release doesn't guarantee stability and timely security
>>> updates, it shouldn't be called LTS.  Maybe "Extended Support" or
>>> "More Volunteer Updates".  But not LTS...  
>> The name is not the issue, as long as it is understood that it is a
>> volunteer based project. It isn't in the fedora name, but fedora is a
>> volunteer based project.
> 
> What earthly reason would you have to run some old code set, with not
> even close to guaranteed updates, let alone timely ones, with little
> man power behind it, and the opportunity to be ignored by most package
> owners?

Here's the reason: you have a new computer with hardware supported in 
fedora but not the current RHEL/Centos release - or you need some 
software feature provided in the newer fedora apps so you install 
fedora.  A year passes and you've installed an assortment of additional 
apps and perhaps written some of your own.  Everything you need is 
working nicely, but now your security updates end.  Your 'some old code 
set' description doesn't quite match what people care about - they want 
a code set that meets certain needs and once that is installed and 
working they don't care if a prettier new version with new bugs happens 
to be available.  But people will be installing that on new computers or 
new situations where they need a feature.

> And why aren't those reasons satisfied with RHEL/CentOS which doesn't
> have these problems?

After the RHEL/Centos version is released that includes the needed 
features, this can work.  However, people probably have better things to 
do than reinstall their OS and duplicate a year or more's worth of 
tracking down 3rd party apps and tweaking their own.

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    Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell at gmail.com