[K12OSN] FC6-based K12LTSP--an important note

[Robert Arkiletian]

On 4/4/08, Dan Young <dyoung at mesd.k12.or.us> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 1:03 PM, Robert Arkiletian <robark at gmail.com> wrote:
>  >  However, K12LTSP is being taken over by the Fedora Project.
>  >
>  >  -changing the name to K12linux.
>  >  -switching to ltsp 5
>  >
>  >  I doubt they will release a CentOS version as Eric did. I think this
>  >  is going to be an issue for some as the current length of support for
>  >  Fedora is about 14 months (2 future versions which are released every
>  >  6 months)
>
>
> IIRC, Warren Togami is interested in backporting the LTSP5 packages to
>  Enterprise Linux v5 once the initial Fedora work is done. Ideally,
>  someone would maintain this in EPEL [1]. Then a CentOS w/ K12Linux
>  spin could be made available relatively easily.

This is good news. :)

However, I don't think EL5 (based on FC6) is a good match for K12linux
(now being built on FC8-9). I think EL6 would be a much easier fit.

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Robert Arkiletian
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