1-2-3 out, time for FC2?

[Jason Lim]

Hi all,

After following a lot of the conversations here, and having FC boxes for
servers, I can tell you that a LOT of our customers did NOT expect and
know that there was such a short timeline per release. They thought they
could keep running FC1 for a long time, so a lot of them fell for FC1 at
the time for running servers.

However, now that everyone knows publically that the FC releases are so
short-lived, less and less people are running it on their servers, to the
point that almost all servers now run RHEL / CentOS now (as they should
be).

However, some customers are still stuck on FC1. We have almost no boxes
stuck on FC2/3/4 simply because everyone already knows about the short
timeline.

Almost none of this affects people running it on the desktop, since
downtime is far less damaging on a desktop/laptop than on a server, so the
only people still being "forced" to run FC1 are the server guys.

That is probably why interest in FC1 is far more than say FC2 or FC3,
because people fell for the "trap" of installing FC1 on servers.

 Anyway, just my 2 cents, I would hope that FC1 is maintained and forget
about having long lifetimes for the rest, people who want long lifetimes
already use RHEL/CentOS which is far more suited to that kind of situation
anyway.

Jas

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeff Sheltren" <sheltren at cs.ucsb.edu>
To: "Discussion of the Fedora Legacy Project"
<fedora-legacy-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Monday, 10 April, 2006 6:31 PM
Subject: Re: 1-2-3 out, time for FC2?


>
> On Apr 10, 2006, at 12:29 AM, Mike McCarty wrote:
>
> > Tres Seaver wrote:
> >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> >> Hash: SHA1
> >> Jesse Keating wrote:
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> >>> Honestly, I feel that supporting FC1 for so long was a mistake.
> >>> It set a precedence that I really don't want to continue.  Legacy
> >>> picked a timeline
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> >> Dropping the releases which get actual love may feel cleaner, but  I
> >> don't think you are going to get the folks who have been maintaining
> >> those older releases to switch to a newer FC:  they will, as you
> >> point
> >> out, more likely switch away from Fedora altogether.  Perhaps
> >> there are
> >> a group of volunteers who care about more recent FC releases, and who
> >> can take up the load.
> >
> > If things get to the point where I feel I *must* replace my load,
> > I'm switching to Debian.
> >
> > Mike
>
> Mike, I thought you had already stopped using Legacy.  If so, I'm not
> sure how this affects you.
>
> I'm referring to your post here:
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-legacy-list/2006-February/
> msg00138.html
>
> -Jeff
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