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Fedora and long term support

Fedora and long term support

Posted Oct 18, 2008 19:32 UTC (Sat) by nim-nim (subscriber, #34454)
In reply to: Fedora and long term support by Nord
Parent article: Fedora and long term support

I don't believe a Fedora LTS will ever fly, because it has too much overlap with RHEL/Centos+EPEL, which means the ROI of such an endeavour is likely too small to attract enough contributors.

However, people could easily make the need for a "Fedora LTS" less by pursuing two efforts:
— contribute to EPEL, so the feature gap between Fedora and RHEL/Centos gets smaller
— contribute to Fedora stabilization and in-place transparent update efforts, so the "danger" (real or perceived) or arriving at the end of a Fedora cycle diminishes

Both those efforts do not require the huge endeavour of creating yet another major distribution, just to contribute a little more to existing efforts.

Remember, both Fedora and EPEL are open community projects, their lack of features/lack of stability can always be fixed from within.

Of course that's less grand that announcing a new Foo LTS project, but I strongly suggest to forget this idea if you've not a billionaire with some pocket money invest in the idea.


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