At 11:37 AM 5/10/04 -0700, Sean Kennedy wrote:
>This is exactly the problem with fc1 in a production enviroment. The >fact that it becomes unsupported so fast, as far as patches are >concerned.
FC1 has the right software [...] but if support for keeping it secure is going to go away, and require an upgrade to a new version every few months, it's not going to cut it either.
Why is it that people don't listen, and keep saying the same mistake over and over again? Please, repeat after me:
1. Fedora Core releases are supposed to be made 2 or 3 times per year. From FC1 to FC2 took 6.5 months and was one hell of a schedule, so more than twice a year is bloody well unlikely. Twice a year is exactly the release cycle Red Hat Linux had.
2. Red Hat cannot support OS versions for five years without sufficient revenue, based on past experience of doing it that way for *years*. So FC1 has support for approximately three months after FC2 is released, and so on.
3. Fedora Legacy intends to provide continued support (security patches mostly) for FC1 through three release cycles. That is until the release of FC5, roughly an additional 15-18 months.
4. At the very least, you can easily count on starting to use FC2 tomorrow, getting patches direct from Fedora Project for about 9 months, then using Fedora Legacy for just four months or so and going straight to FC4. But you might be able to stick with Fedora Legacy until the release of FC6 if FL achieves their objectives.
Which part of this is too unstable or too fast-changing for you?
-- Rodolfo J. Paiz rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.simpaticus.com
