On Thu, 2004-08-19 at 17:30 -0400, Beartooth wrote: <snip> > It seems to me there's a broader point here; somebody please correct me as > called for. My very limited understanding while mulling RH9's > then-approaching EOL and replacements, and watching LUGs, was that one > purpose of the whole Fedora project was to keep something remotely > familiar (read manageable) to those of us such as old retired farts who > couldn't read a line of code if it bit us, much less write one. Or am I > barking up the wrong distro? Good morning. My understanding of fedora at the moment is. Maintain a high rate of development, with a new release being released every 6 to 9 months (may be shorter), to allow for this high frequency of releases support is only going to be provided for the current release and the previous release. So when FC3 is released support for FC1 will be dropped (or may have already been dropped). This could lead to situations where your system may not be supported due to scheduels. However, a secondary project has been set up called Fedora Legacy who intend to extend security updates for a longer period (I am unsure of how much longer). Check out their site http://www.fedoralegacy.org/ These people are currently providing support for Redhat 9, and several other versions, once FC1 support has been stopped by Fedora.com then Fedoralegacy will pick up the ball (I don't know how long the cross over will take). To work with fedoralegacy.org simply requires a slight upgrade to your /etc/yum.conf file, if you need any help with that, any number of people from this group can help. So, if your answer is, will the fedora community allow me to stick with them with out being right on the bleeding edge with out finding my self being left open to security vulnerabilities. Then the answer is kinda :) However you ARE going to be looking at a higher upgrade/re-install rate then with RHES. I hope what I have said is not too misleading or too wrong :) <snip again> -- Douglas Furlong Systems Administrator Firebox.com T: 0870 420 4475 F: 0870 220 2178
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