Patrick Bartek wrote: > --- On Wed, 11/10/10, Gordon Messmer<yinyang@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On 11/09/2010 07:35 PM, Patrick >> Bartek wrote: >>> I've gotten to the point where I'm tiring of Fedora's >> fast release >>> cycle. I need a longer life OS. I build my >> personal systems to last >>> about 5 to 7 years with periodic hardware upgrades as >> needed. I'd >>> like the OS last that long, too. >> ... >>> 5 along with CentOS and >>> Scientific Linux versions are too old being seemingly >> based on FC6. >> >> If you want your OS to last 5 to 7 years, your package >> version are going >> to be old. To paraphrase Babbage, I am not able >> rightly to apprehend >> the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such >> requirements. > > That's okay as long as the OS is "current" when it is installed and will be supported for those 5 years or so. (I'm not a cutting edge type of person. It matters little to me whether something is new or old as long as it works and satifies my requirements.) I wouldn't install, say, CentOS 5, on a new or old system today and not expect problems, either today or later. That's why I'm waiting for CentOS 6 or Debian 6, etc. to be released before doing anything to my current 4 year old system--Fedora 12 64-bit. > I will probably be using CentOS-5.5 or later until CentOS-7 comes out. RHEL6 is dropping xen, and the little utility boxes I seem to build for firewall or similar don't have HVM and can't support KVM. Hopefully xen will be back in mainline soon, and people will have a choice how they want to run things. -- Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
