plans for long term support releases?

Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net
Wed Jan 17 08:51:27 UTC 2007


Le Mer 17 janvier 2007 09:41, Thomas M Steenholdt a écrit :
> Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
>> Le mardi 16 janvier 2007 à 23:26 +0100, Thomas M Steenholdt a écrit :
>>
>>> I've heard mention so many times, that it's a problem, people don't see
>>> Fedora as a serious distribution for non-desktop/-testing use. I think
>>> that this is exactly the problem. We want to be bleeding edge, but at
>>> the same time it would be nice if an installed version could be trusted
>>> to not break too often because of updates.
>>
>> In the Fedora space that means making updates safer¹, not finding ways
>> to avoid updates.
>>
>> ¹ and supporting continuous yum updating with no anaconda stage
>>
>>
>
> Indeed. And I have no problem with things changing, as long as they keep
> working. But let the updates flow for a longer period of time for a
> branched version we could call Fedora LTS (or sumthin).

Given the Fedora churn rate, I hope you realise that means you'll get a
85% new distro at about the time the Fedora new release happens, without
the testing associated to a new release.

With LTS you'll definitely get what amounts to a 100% new release without
the testing

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot




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