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Fedora Core 4 Test 1 slipsFedora Core 4 Test 1 slipsPosted Feb 24, 2005 4:07 UTC (Thu) by jimmybgood (guest, #26142)Parent article: Fedora Core 4 Test 1 slips
What concerns me is that support for fc2 is being dropped so soon while fc4 is still just a hope and promise slipping further into the future. Fc3 simply has too many problems that I can't resolve and I'm not looking forward at all to the prospect of having to switch to fc3 and then to fc4 a month later.
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Fedora Core 4 Test 1 slips Posted Feb 24, 2005 7:31 UTC (Thu) by djabsolut (guest, #12799) [Link] That's the rules of the game with Fedora. If one is concerned about a Fedora release not being maintained after about a year or so, it is better to use an alternative distribution. See also the Fedora Legacy Project.
Fedora Core 4 Test 1 slips Posted Feb 25, 2005 2:35 UTC (Fri) by jimmybgood (guest, #26142) [Link] No, you're wrong about that. Fc3 was released on November 8, 2004. Fc1 wasn't obsoleted until November 20, 2004, twelve days after fc3 was released.
Fc2 is scheduled to be discontinued on March 21, 2005, while fc4 is not scheduled to be released until June 6, 2005 77 days _later_. And I'll wager any money at even odds that they don't make that schedule. After all, there are already delays.
So fc2, released on May 18, 2004, will only exist for 10 months. Where I come from, that's considerably less than a "year or so".
I've already "seen" the Fedora Legacy Project. They didn't start providing support for fc1 until months after it had been obsoleted.
A 10 month release to obsolescence development schedule is just too short for any kind of practical real world use. Who are they making it for? What business could possibly afford to change operating systems every 10 months. Maybe that's what it's about. Is the Fedora project trying to make sure that it can't be used in a production environment to avoid competing with RHEL?
I don't know, but I do know that the folks at the Fedora project aren't disclosing their reason for cutting fc2 so short.
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