reviving Fedora Legacy

Josh Boyer jwboyer at gmail.com
Tue Oct 14 00:47:54 UTC 2008


On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 02:17:01PM -0700, Chris Weyl wrote:
>> I know about users for which Centos/RHEL is not right because it is too
>> old, fedora would suit them, if they had not to upgrade after one year.
>> Currently I have to propose them to install ubuntu, because there is
>> nothing in the fedora/RHEL market that suits them. Not enough power user
>> for fedora updates every year, need too recent stuff for RHEL. Another
>> category who be those who want to use a controlled set of next
>> technology preview in production environment and are willing to do some
>> testing and help with bugs, hence would have choosen fedora, but cannot
>> if they have to update each year.
>
>On this point, I know I tend to be pretty liberal with my personal
>machines (and tend to keep them at the latest !rawhide), but for my
>work laptop, while I run Fedora for a variety of reasons, I tend to be
>pretty conservative and upgrade to the latest only when forced to by
>distro EOL or some other compelling reason.  A LTS plan would make
>sense for reasonable situations like this.

No, it wouldn't.

(I know you know that I know what you know so you should know what
I know and I know there are other options and I know that you know
that.)

josh




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