Fedora more successful, developer-wise, than Ubuntu

[Jon Stanley]

On Dec 24, 2007 4:19 PM, Jeroen van Meeuwen <kanarip at kanarip.com> wrote:

> I don't think Ubuntu LTS gives you the latest and greatest unless you
> upgrade, does it?

I think that's the whole point.

> Same with CentOS; although it might be supported longer then you are
> going to use it, whenever you feel you want newer software you upgrade
> to the next release. Meanwhile, it's stable.

Correct - however security updates are backported to the "old"
versions of the software.

> The Fedora Project moves in with EPEL, Extra Packages for Enterprise
> Linux, perfectly suitable for a CentOS machine and with the same release
> and 'support' cycle.

Not entirely sure what you mean here.  I think what was being called
for was a release whereby it's "supported" (with security updates,
etc) beyond the current 1 year, however perhaps not as much as the 7
years that RHEL is supported.

However, as Matthew said in the e-mail that came in as I was writing
this, there was little interest in Fedora Legacy when it existed.
What makes us think that there's more of a demand now?  It's either
the short, bleeding edge release cycle of Fedora as we know it, or the
long release cycle of RHEL.  Both serve different purposes.

-Jon