OS Future now that Fedora Legacy defunct

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Mon Dec 25 07:55:29 UTC 2006


Ric Moore wrote:

> I agree with you and your assessment 100%, Donald. The whole deal with
> Fedora, as noted in the beginning, that it is a hot test bed for RHEL
> and it will be cyclical, ever evolving at the bleeding edge. No where
> does the intro to Fedora say that it is a good server candidate. 

We have always described Fedora as a general purpose system. Desktop, 
server or something else - use it the way it fits into your needs.

> As I posted before, from what I perceive that I read, FC6 is supposed to
> be the last edition in that devel cycle and FC7, or whatever they call
> it, should be settled down and hopefully remain that way for a much
> longer period of time. It might even be a server candidate, I dunno. I
> understand that they haven't gone to all the expense to support Fedora
> for us for our pure bumpin' enjoyment, but maybe Rahul will drop it on
> us and put all of the speculation to rest. That would be a good thing.

I think you might reading into it more than what is being told. The 
detailed proposals including IRC logs are in 
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraSummit

Also see the plans for the next release at 
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.advisory-board/1551

Rahul




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