On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 08:48:09PM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Strong wrote: >> On 08 Nov 2007 10:47:35 -0500 DJ Delorie <dj@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> 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. >>> That's what RHEL and CentOS are for. >> Yes, but they use not so up-to-date software as F! Why not satisfy >> Serguei Miridonov thought? What a mystery is there with the >> lifetime/release period of F? Why some speak F needs shorter >> lifetime/release period just to be on "edge"? - the thing I keep try to >> find out not the first time. > Have people forgotten the fedoralegacy project so soon? That was the intent > of the project, to port at least security fixes back to the early > distributions. Labor intensive! > > It would be nice if an FC release could be supported for security issues > only for some reasonable length of time, maybe two years from iitial > release? That's not forever, but it does allow people to actually *use* > their computers for a while before taking another ride on the FC-current > learning curve. I'm kind of making do with FC6 and a kernel.org kernel, but > I know at some point I will have to upgrade or start maintaining some stuff > myself. > > There's no middle ground, CentOS is aimed at stability, FC at being near > the cutting edge, and I just don't like admin on ubuntu, it's great to run > "out of the box" but not as nice as FC to tweak a little. > Yes, I think that's just about where I am too. So <AOL> Me too! </AOL> :-) -- Chris Green
