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Fedora Legacy end-of-life announcementsFedora Legacy end-of-life announcementsPosted Jul 24, 2006 20:21 UTC (Mon) by penguin (guest, #36771)In reply to: Fedora Legacy end-of-life announcements by jimmybgood Parent article: Fedora Legacy end-of-life announcements
What are you complaining about? Fedora is supposed to cater the people who want to be on the bleeding edge. As such its in its nature to not have long release cycles. There are other distributions for those who dont want to upgrade their systems often, like Ubuntu LTS, Debian Stable or Gentoo.
Fedora is great for people who like to have the latest and greatest.
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Fedora Legacy end-of-life announcements Posted Jul 24, 2006 20:54 UTC (Mon) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link] he wasn't claiming tha Fedora isn't a bleeding edge distro, he was pointing out the contridiction between teh claims that it's not a betatest for RHE (and therefor it's suitable for normal use) and the fact that it is bleeding edge and has very short support cycles (which would make it unsuitable for normal use)
it's a troll posting with some real truth behind it. unfortunantly it's a troll that generates a predictable, unthinking set of responses from fedora advocates (and there is another set of responses that are generated if the troll emphisises the bleeding-edge nature of fedora without mentioning the support issue, those responses claim that fedora isn't bleeding edge)
Fedora Legacy end-of-life announcements Posted Jul 24, 2006 22:11 UTC (Mon) by otaylor (subscriber, #4190) [Link] The assumption you are making is that the only form of normal use is installing on a system you want to maintain stable for over two years.
While this may be true of the computing industry as a whole, it's not true, I think, of most LWN users. I'd guess that that most of us have some systems we are responsible for that we need long update cycles for, and also some systems we want to have the latest software on and that we don't mind upgrading every year or so.
It's very hard to cater to both markets with a single distribution; most basically, because if you release every 6 months and then support each release for 7 years... well you can do the math.
Fedora Legacy end-of-life announcements Posted Jul 24, 2006 23:50 UTC (Mon) by ronaldcole (guest, #1462) [Link] Oh, I don't know that that's true. For quite a long while now, you've been unable to patch yourself to the next Red Hat major version release. And with Red Hat recently screwing up many, many systems with Bugzilla bug #191841 in RHEL 3 Update 8, my loyalties may be changing to the Debian camp: Ubuntu 6.06 LTS being available and all. And the price is right! As long as I can continue to patch my systems up to the next major release, I'll be a happier camper.
Fedora Legacy end-of-life announcements Posted Jul 27, 2006 15:10 UTC (Thu) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458) [Link] And with Red Hat recently screwing up many, many systems with Bugzilla bug #191841 in RHEL 3 Update 8... From what I see, this is a (packaging?) bug in PVM, something that isn't exactly what everybody is running. Hardly a reason for such a harsh complaint...
Fedora Legacy end-of-life announcements Posted Jul 25, 2006 11:36 UTC (Tue) by scottt (subscriber, #5028) [Link] In fairness, I think you should take into account that during its supported life time a fedora release gets security patches very quickly as can be seen from the LWN security page. Many programmers actually enjoy upgrading their workstations once or twice a year and getting all the latest libraries and development tools along with a good desktop to work on.
Redhat employs a lot of the core developers in the gcc linux kernel, glibc, and gnome projects so a lot of the "original development" actually happens on fedora running machines. That should certainly count as "serious" if not "normal" use.
One year may be too short a support life cycle for a lot of servers but the fedora project has always been clear about their product life cycles:
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