[Fwd: Wikipidia - Goodbye Red Hat and Fedora]

[Arthur Pemberton]

On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 4:56 PM, Behdad Esfahbod <behdad at behdad.org> wrote:
> Itamar - IspBrasil wrote:
>> forwarding message from Rodrigo Padula
>>
>> any chance to increase the life of fedora releases ?
>>
>> or fedora will be only blending edge ?
>>
>> In my opinion fedora is losing space from centos and ubuntu
>
> I agree with the rest of the threda that CentOS *is* Fedora LTS!
> The major problem Wikipedia faced seems to me more being that
> Fedora/RHEL/CentOS is not really upgradeable, whereas Debian/Ubuntu handled
> upgrades quite nicely.  *That* seems to be a major weakness of us.


I saw no mention of Centos, though someone in the thread mentioned
that it had been attempted. Your point about upgrade makes sense,
though I find it pretty weak. Is doing an inplace upgrade on a
production server common? I don't think so, but I am quite possibly
wrong.


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