Feature proposal: Extended Life Cycle Support

Juan Rodriguez nushio at fedoraproject.org
Sun Jul 5 15:29:33 UTC 2009


On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 5:39 AM, David Woodhouse <dwmw2 at infradead.org> wrote:

> On Sun, 2009-07-05 at 12:03 +0200, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
> > The CentOS project, or it's upstream, has a release cycle of
> approximately
> > three years -not a steady release cycle of three years but that's what it
> > turns out to be. This disqualifies the distribution(s) as desktop Linux
> > distributions, as desktops tend to need to run the latest and greatest
> for
> > as far the latest and greatest lets them.
> >
> > Does that make sense?
>
> As a standalone observation, perhaps -- some desktop users often don't
> want old, stagnant code; they'd prefer the latest bells and whistles.
>
> But it makes no sense when considered in conjunction with your apparent
> desire for an old, stagnant version of Fedora.
>
> What makes you think it would be any different?
>
> It's not exactly difficult or problematic to update from one version of
> Fedora to the next. I do it on each of my servers at least once a year
> (I usually skip a release, but not always). And those are mostly
> headless, remote boxes.
>
> If you want new stuff, run Fedora and do a fairly painless update
> annually. If you want old stuff, run Centos and update less frequently.
>
> I don't see any need for a middle ground.
>
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> David Woodhouse                            Open Source Technology Centre
> David.Woodhouse at intel.com                              Intel Corporation
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Out of curiosity, don't we have an Extended Life Cycle Fedora version called
Red Hat Enterprise Linux and/or CentOS and/or dozens of other similar
distros?

Why duplicate efforts? Just so it goes under the name "Fedora"?
-- 
Ing. Juan M. Rodriguez Moreno
Desarrollador de Sistemas Abiertos
Sitio: http://proyectofedora.org/mexico
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