[Fwd: Wikipidia - Goodbye Red Hat and Fedora]

[Behdad Esfahbod]

Itamar - IspBrasil wrote:
> forwarding message from Rodrigo Padula
> 
> any chance to increase the life of fedora releases ?
> 
> or fedora will be only blending edge ?
> 
> In my opinion fedora is losing space from centos and ubuntu

I agree with the rest of the threda that CentOS *is* Fedora LTS!
The major problem Wikipedia faced seems to me more being that
Fedora/RHEL/CentOS is not really upgradeable, whereas Debian/Ubuntu handled
upgrades quite nicely.  *That* seems to be a major weakness of us.

My 0.02CAD
behdad

> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject:     Wikipidia - Goodbye Red Hat and Fedora
> Date:     Fri, 10 Oct 2008 09:42:55 -0300
> From:     Rodrigo Padula de Oliveira <rodrigopadula at projetofedora.org>
> Reply-To:     For discussions about marketing and expanding the Fedora
> user base <fedora-marketing-list at redhat.com>
> To:     For discussions about marketing and expanding the Fedora user
> base <fedora-marketing-list at redhat.com>
> 
> 
> 
> Hello Guys!
> 
> Read this bad news:
> 
> http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php/id;1474805050;fp;16;fpid;1
> 
> This is happening frequently. I think we will have to revise some things
> within the project, particularly the creation of a Legacy project or a
> Fedora LTS.
> 
> The brazilian government, one of the biggest Fedora Case of the world is
> changing from Fedora/ Red Hat to Ubuntu/Debian.
> 
> We need to think and create a solution to give support by a long time or
> the fedora user will decrease!
> 
> My 0,02
>