reviving Fedora Legacy

Stephen John Smoogen smooge at gmail.com
Tue Oct 14 17:44:56 UTC 2008


On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 11:25 AM, Stephen John Smoogen <smooge at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 11:13 AM, Rex Dieter <rdieter at math.unl.edu> wrote:
>> Horst H. von Brand wrote:
>>
>>> Benny Amorsen <benny+usenet at amorsen.dk> wrote:
>>
>>>> I'd love to see this. It could e.g. keep a service in the process of
>>>> being decommissioned alive a little longer without having to do the
>>>> usual upgrade.
>>>
>>> Currently you have *6 months* to move over to the next Fedora...
>>
>> s/6/13/ ?
>>
>
> I think the problem is that people have a hard time seeing what each
> other is talking about. I think this is what the upgrade policy is.
>
>           Release                 EOL
> Fedora 8   2007-11-10      2008-12-25?
> Fedora 9   2008-05-13      2008-05-XX
> Fedora 10  2008-11-25?     2008-11-XX
> Fedora 11  2008-05-XX      2009-05-XX
>

I don't know who the idiot who wrote this is... but boy he should be shot.

           Release                 EOL
Fedora  8  2007-11-10      2008-12-25?
Fedora  9  2008-05-13      2008-06-XX
Fedora 10  2008-11-25?     2009-12-XX
Fedora 11  2009-05-XX      2010-06-XX
Fedora 12  2009-11-XX      2010-12-XX
Fedora 13  2010-05-XX      2011-06-XX


> If Fedora were to make its schedules of 6 months.. and I am at Fedora
> 8, I have 7 months to move from Fedora 8 -> 9 since 8 isn't available
> til 6 months out of my 13 month support. Now the lifetime of Fedora 8
> would be 13 months.. but my window to upgrade before I lose security
> is 7 months.
>
> --
> Stephen J Smoogen. -- BSD/GNU/Linux
> How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed
> in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice"
>



-- 
Stephen J Smoogen. -- BSD/GNU/Linux
How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed
in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice"




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