At 9:22 AM +0300 8/3/05, Dotan Cohen wrote: >On 8/3/05, Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 12:52 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: >> > Paul Howarth wrote: >> > >> > > Red Hat don't release any updates for FC2 any more. It is End-of-Lifed. >> > > >> > > Paul. >> > >> > True, but then there is always http://www.fedoralegacy.org/ >> > Not exactly "support", but not exactly abandoned, either. >> >> Yes, but the Fedora Legacy project concentrates on security issues, so >> timezone data updates probably won't get addressed. >> >> Paul. > >The reason for that is simple: Fedora is Redhat's test distro. Fedora is like an Agricultural University's test garden for developing new varieties of Linux, and Redhat chooses the new varieties they want from Fedora's garden and from other places as well. Others are also welcome to choose new varieties from that garden. The Fedora Legacy project has less support because most Fedora users and developers have been moving forward with new versions of Fedora, and also because the Fedora Legacy users mostly are running stable servers and don't want to change anything they don't have to. Security is what they need, as well as critical bug fixes, so that's what they work on. ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
