Thoughts on FC and the future..

Patrick W. Fraley pf at comsulting.de
Mon Jan 12 14:56:09 UTC 2004


Hey on your Listing your forgot one major option:

5) Switch to another distribution ;)

Patrick

Am Mon, 2004-01-12 um 15.49 schrieb WipeOut:
> Benjamin J. Weiss wrote:
> 
> >So, if I am reading you correctly, Fedora Core users are going to have one
> >of four options from now on:
> >
> >1) Re-install their servers from scratch, every 5-6 months.
> >
> >2) Try to go it alone on an upgrade path that is not supported, and pray
> >that they can keep their server somewhat stable in some arcane way.
> >
> >3) Stick with their current FC1 and try to keep up to date on all of the
> >security fixes themselves, since they won't be supported for but an
> >additional 2 months or so.
> >
> >4) Forget about it and allow the bad guys to hack into their system when the
> >next big security hole is found.
> >
> >Does that about sum it up?
> >
> >As an addendum...is Redhat forcing Fedora Core into a too-rapid release
> >cycle in order to force people to purchase their RHEL offerings?  It sure
> >feels that way to me...
> >
> >  
> >
> Thats what I put on the end of my original mail, that the ability to 
> easily migrate from one release to the next may be blocked by RH since 
> its one of their major selling points for RHEL..
> 
> I am sure a structure could be put in place where seemless migration 
> from one relase to the next could be achived.. even do awat with 
> releases all together and simply use snapshots to install new systems 
> and then just keep the system current from then on with no need to 
> "upgrade" the whole system ever..
> 
> later..
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