On Sat, 15 May 2004, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > Am Sa, den 15.05.2004 schrieb Jay Daniels um 18:13: > > > after finding out you will have to upgrade to a new version of fedora > > every 3 months, I question my decision on using fedora. > > I had the impression you was a regular reader and poster on this list. > Sorry, did you sleep? Who and where did you tell that new Fedora > releases come out 4 times a year? And who urges you to upgrade as soon > as a new stable release is out? > > Obviously that are rhetoric questions. On the Fedora Project site you > can read that new Core releases are planned to come out just 2 times a > year. And that is because Fedora intends to be leading edge, a > distribution for the desktop and for enthusiastic users wanting to use > the recent applications and technologies. > > And the Fedora Project page states too that bug fixing packages for the > Core release are to be expected 2 to 3 month after a new Core release is > out. > > The Fedoralegacy project intends to prolong that IIRC for about 3 month. > So in all a Fedora Core release can be kept safe for a period of 1 year. > Is that bad for a distribution with the goals it has? Actually legacy says - it will maintain for 3 release cycles (the faq esitmates it as 1.5 years). Asuming a cycle time of 6 months (which is what FC1 to FC2 is approximately) this turns out : FC1->FC2 = 6months extra life = 2/3monts (lower estimate 2 monts) legacy = 3 * 6monts ie. 4*6 + 2 = 26 months. (over 2 years) If fedora manages to crank out 3 releases per year - then the life would be atleast : 4*4 + 2 = 18months (1.5 years) Satish
