On Nov 10, 2007 12:52 AM, Gilboa Davara <gilboad@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, 2007-11-10 at 10:41 +0200, Gilboa Davara wrote: > > On Thu, 2007-11-08 at 07:32 -0800, Serguei Miridonov wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > I have some remarks about Fedora lifetime and stability which > > > are very important for general users. Now and in the past > > > there were some issues with Fedora upgrades which turned life > > > into nightmare when instead of doing normal work users had to > > > fight with bugs, sending reports, waiting fixes, etc. > > > > > > I think that it might be a good idea to increase the time > > > between Fedora releases and/or make the lifetime of every > > > release at least 2-3 years. > > > > > > However, before starting a discussion about this I would like > > > to ask, if this topic was discussed earlier. I'm sure it was > > > but can somebody point me any deep analysis which really > > > proves that current one year lifetime and half-year release > > > period is the best for Fedora? > > > > > > Thank you in advance. > > > > > > Serguei. > > > > > > > No deep analysis required: > > Short term support (1 year), bleeding edge: Fedora. > > Long term support (7 years), slow moving: RHEL (and CentOS). > > > > - Gilboa > > Let me try and explain myself. > You cannot have a stable platform that is also bleeding edge. > As any software developer can tell you, software needs time to mature. > You need time to check everything, fix bugs, fix compatibility problems, > etc. > > Ubuntu long term support is problematic. You get a semi-unstable release > that is slowly being stabilized as things progress. But until it fully > stabilizes, the software packages being used as just as old as > RHEL/CentOS ones. Why do you say long term support is problematic? Per their web page 18 months is the standard support term for the desktop and server releases. Plus they offer special long term support (LTS ) releases; desktop (3 years) and server (5 years). They're all free and under one umbrella. That beats the heck out of what Fedora/Red Hat is offering. (I'm not counting CentOS as a free Red Hat supported offering.) > ... In essence, instead of having RedHat/CentOS do the QA for you (or > use Fedora to pre-test it), you are being used as Ubuntu's QA It's a community QA for the bulk of the software. GNU software, Gnome, KDE, Openoffice, etc. are all from the same place. > [snip] > - Gilboa
