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Fedora Legacy end-of-life announcementsFedora Legacy end-of-life announcementsPosted Jul 24, 2006 22:11 UTC (Mon) by otaylor (subscriber, #4190)In reply to: Fedora Legacy end-of-life announcements by dlang Parent article: Fedora Legacy end-of-life announcements
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.
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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...
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