Legacy inadequacy

Legacy inadequacy

Posted Nov 7, 2006 22:20 UTC (Tue) by bojan (subscriber, #14302)
In reply to: Legacy inadequacy by man_ls
Parent article: Big decisions loom for Fedora

Obviously people that think that Fedora's forced upgrades are not nice, like yourself (and there is nothing wrong with that - I'm just making an observation), already picked another distro, which is about 3 orders of magnitude easier than maintaining Fedora Legacy.

Initially, people thought that FL will be the answer to what RHL used to be. In order words a free, "forever" maintained, recent, Red Hat flavoured distro. It turned out that the intersection of:

- has to be Red Hat flavoured
- has to be free
- has to have updates coming
- has to be more recent than RHELx

Didn't have that many interested users/developers. Therefore, people picked different distros, including CentOS, FC, Ubuntu, Debian etc. And FL ended up being unmaintained after this initial reaction to FC/RHEL split cleared up.

Granted, there is still occasional "don't keep changing so fast" on various Fedora lists, but most people understand by now that the Fedora is life in a fast lane.

And once RHEL5 gets released and CentOS 5 gets built, the current level of interest in FL will drop by a few notches again. It's just a natural reaction to the fact that there is no point in doing the hard work that someone already did.

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