F8 ETA?
Rick Stevens
rstevens at internap.com
Wed Oct 31 21:51:54 UTC 2007
On Thu, 2007-11-01 at 02:50 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Rick Stevens wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 19:11 +0100, Adalbert Prokop wrote:
> >> Tim Alberts wrote on Tuesday 30 October 2007:
> >>
> >>> It's certainly not selfish if you want run production servers...it just
> >>> prompts the question (yet again), 'is Fedora production quality or just
> >>> beta test for Redhat?'
> >> You question implies there are only those two options available, which
> >> might not be true. In this case your question would be inane.
> >>
> >> I would neither assume Fedora being RedHat's *beta* playing ground nor
> >> would I use it for a server, which I *must* rely on.
> >> I use it as my workstation OS and for my home server - I think that was
> >> the goal of Fedora and it does it job fair enough.
> >
> > Actually, Fedora _is_ the beta stuff for RHEL. There is no RHEL beta
> > stuff...it's either RHEL or it's Fedora. Example: RHEL5 is essentially
> > Fedora Core 6.
> >
> > Of course, I look more at it as a "technology preview" rather than beta,
> > but I'm weird.
>
> There is in fact a 6 month or so long beta process for RHEL for every
> major release and a smaller beta period for minor releases. A recent
> update for example,
>
> http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS6512580671.html
I didn't realize that. Ok, I stand (sit) corrected.
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