Hi All,
I've looked around, read most of the archives on this list & have seen the topic sort of mentioned, but not directly... so here goes:
I've got about 120 machines (servers & workstations) running 7.3 and 9.
I was going to roll RH9 out department-wide, but then realized that it's end-of-life is scheduled for April 2004, which is smack-dab in the
middle of the semester.
I've recently been asked/told to limit OS releases to every 2 years. I feel that this is fair.
I've looked into RHEL; my "higher-ups" are VERY squeamish about paying for anything. I'm contemplating switching to another distribution with longer life-cycles, but I'm very comfy with RHL, and don't want to switch.
(finally) My question is this: What is the anticipated life-cycle for Fedora releases? I know that there will be core updates every four months - by 'core' I gather this means kernel, gcc, glib, X, etc... but how long will a core release last - is it based on popularity/stability? I've seen lots of talk about other companies that provide support for end-of-life RH releases, and can assume that it will continue with Fedora, but for a university with a $50M+ defeceit this year, paying is not an option.
Any thoughts/views would be greatly appreciated -
Cheers & Thanks! Erik.
-- e r i k w i l l i a m s o n erik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx system admin . department of computer science . university of calgary
