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[Kelson]

Danny Terweij - Net Tuning | Net wrote:
>> Easy: If you don't like that, don't use FC for production.
> 
> Nice advertising line.. put it on the FC website in big red letters :)

It used to be there.  Not sure what happened to it.

Fedora Core was designed from the start to be a leading-edge (or, 
depending on your perspective, bleeding-edge) distribution.  It's great 
if you want the latest and greatest and you don't mind upgrading your 
system every 9-12 months.

Fedora Legacy was designed to provide extra support time so that people 
who wanted to use Fedora but only upgrade once every 1-1.5 years could 
do so without leaving their systems insecure for 6 months at a time, and 
to keep the last Red Hat Linux releases viable past their official end 
of life.

If you really don't want to upgrade on a regular basis, there are other 
distributions that may be a better fit for you.  If you still like the 
Red Hat way of doing things, but want long-term OS stability, there's 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux and its various clones like CentOS and White 
Box Linux (I've had good experiences with CentOS, and I'll recommend 
it).  You can also move toward another distro like Debian.

Keep in mind, though, that once you go to a long-term stability-focused 
distro like RHEL or Debian, you're going to find yourself upgrading 
applications manually or from third-party sources, because part of that 
stability is gained by not moving apps, libraries and services to new 
versions except for bug fixes and security fixes.  Which brings us back 
to Fedora Legacy.

Oh, and one more thing: You may have heard the phrase "You'll catch more 
flies with honey than with vinegar."  Waltzing into a community and 
insulting their work is not likely to accomplish much beyond making 
people angry.

-- 
Kelson Vibber
SpeedGate Communications <www.speed.net>