[K12OSN] FC6-based K12LTSP--an important note

[Robert Arkiletian]

On 4/4/08, Henry Hartley <henryhartley at westat.com> wrote:
>  I agree completely.  Furthermore, K12LTSP 5.0EL is based on CentOS 5, which is based in turn on Red Hat 5, which (finally) is based on Fedora Core 6, so you're getting "basically" the same FC6 system but with a much longer support life.  For me, I'd rather not upgrade even once a year, so FC is just too fast and furious.  I plan on using the CentOS based EL versions as long as they continue to be made available.


However, K12LTSP is being taken over by the Fedora Project.

-changing the name to K12linux.
-switching to ltsp 5

I doubt they will release a CentOS version as Eric did. I think this
is going to be an issue for some as the current length of support for
Fedora is about 14 months (2 future versions which are released every
6 months)

So if a school wants to use K12linux for more than 1 year they won't
have security updates in the second year. Unless K12linux has a new
support model I'm not aware of.

BTW, I'm still using k12ltsp 4EL.


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