Fedora Core 3 Transferred to Fedora Legacy

[John Summerfied]

Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 00:56, John Summerfied wrote:
> 
> 
>>Jo and I (and a lot of others) switched from RH back when RH announced 
>>its changed arrangements, and the commencement of the Fedora project 
>>because neither RH not FC provided what we wanted.
>>
>>We've dabbled in others including Debian, Ubuntu, SUSE, 
>>Mandrake/Mandribble and some others.
>>
>>I currently run Debian/Woody, Debian/Sarge, Ubuntu, FC3, SUSE 10 and 
>>WBEL, so I know what the major alternatives are,
> 
> 
> If you want a free long-supported, very-much-FC3-like distribution,
> look at Centos4.x.  The only substantial difference is having
> mysql 4.x and dropping some kernel modules (which an optional
> kernel rebuild adds back).
> 
I am using WBEL on my server, where longevity is important.

I'd not use FC (haven't you seen me describe it as a rolling beta?) on 
anything _that_ important.

I don't have a particular attachment to FC3, it just happens to be the 
one that's been retired right now. I didn't use prior FCs and so wasn't 
affected when they retired.

Retirement plans for other software are based on some period of time 
_after_ the release of a subsequent (eg second, third) release, not 
_before_.

The current policy of retiring an FC release immediately _before_ the 
release of the second subsequent release seems completely bizarre to me.



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