Re: LWN article about us

[Jim Popovitch <jimpop yahoo com>]

On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 21:46 -0500, Marc Deslauriers wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 10:40 +0800, Jason Lim wrote:
> > Actually, if you're talking about the RedHat Linux distros, the last
> > "stable" one was Redhat Linux 9. All the FC ones are being released way
> > too fast and frequently to be used on a stable server.
> 
> rh7.0 - released September 2000 - 5 months after rh6.2
> rh7.1 - released April 2001 - 7 months after rh7.0
> rh7.2 - released October 2001 - 5 months after rh7.1
> rh7.3 - released May 2002 - 7 months after rh7.2
> rh8.0 - released September 2002 - 4 months after rh7.3
> rh9 - released March 2003 - 6 months after rh8.0
> fc1 - released September 2003 - 6 months after rh9
> fc2 - released May 2004 - 8 months after fc1
> fc3 - released November 2004 - 6 months after fc2
> fc4 - projected to be released in May 2005 - 6 months after fc3
> 
> I don't see FC being released faster than RHL used to be. What makes you
> think it's any less stable?

Pound for pound (or more accurately package for package), I think RH7
holds the gold for length of release cycle per package.  

-Jim P.