An empty legacy

Posted Oct 19, 2006 4:23 UTC (Thu) by sbergman27 (guest, #10767)
In reply to: An empty legacy by bojan
Parent article: An empty legacy

>I would think most people either:
>
>- upgraded to a supported Fedora version
>- switched to CentOS 3/4

Yes. But there is a pretty huge gap between upgrading to the latest Fedora Core grab bag and committing to a distro that only releases every 1.5 - 2 years.

CentOS4 is a great option... and is showing its age.

Does it all have to be extremes? Couldn't we who prefer the RedHat style be allowed some sort of middle ground? Something with an expiration date beyond that of the milk in our regrigerators, but more ephemeral than the rock of Gibraltar?

FedentOS, maybe?

Or does that sound too much like chewing gum for denture wearers?

An empty legacy

Posted Oct 19, 2006 4:28 UTC (Thu) by bojan (subscriber, #14302) [Link] (2 responses)

> CentOS4 is a great option... and is showing its age.

Yeah, true. Hopefully, RHEL 5 and therefore CentOS 5 are just around the corner... :-)

An empty legacy

Posted Oct 20, 2006 9:30 UTC (Fri) by ronaldcole (guest, #1462) [Link] (1 responses)

Isn't RHEL 5 targeted for release in December? Sounds to me like two months to shake out the bugs in RHEL 5 beta, a.k.a. Fedora Core 6.

An empty legacy

Posted Oct 22, 2006 10:00 UTC (Sun) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]

RHEL 5 has its own beta cycle. Fedora Core releases are not a beta of anything

An empty legacy

Posted Oct 19, 2006 11:44 UTC (Thu) by nim-nim (subscriber, #34454) [Link]

> Does it all have to be extremes? Couldn't we who prefer the RedHat style be
> allowed some sort of middle ground? Something with an expiration date beyond
> that of the milk in our regrigerators, but more ephemeral than the rock of
> Gibraltar?

It doesn't *have* to. All you need is to find enough interested people to revive Fedora Legacy (which has access to the Fedora build and distribution infrastructure, among other things)

An empty legacy

Posted Oct 19, 2006 20:18 UTC (Thu) by smoogen (subscriber, #97) [Link]

The issue comes down to time and compensation. Do I have enough available free time that I can spend on supporting a legacy software? Does the compensation of good feeling make up for the loss of compensation that I might get elsewhere? [swimming, drinking, dancing, playing with the kid, doing the laundry, etc]

In places where you are going to have to do backports of code, make sure you didn't break anything else, wait for qa, etc... that is a lot of commitment of free-time. I spent 20 hours on just on package doing qa to make sure it didnt introduce problems). In most cases, people do this out of a greater calling ('I am helping the kids..') or for a monetary compensation.

The Centos developers do quite a bit of work daily on making sure that stuff is fed upstream/recompiled correctly/etc. They do it out of a calling and the fact that many of them have consulting businesses that depend on having a stable 'no-cost' distro. Some have other reasons, but all those reasons are compensation to the 10-40 hours a week they spend dealing with a 'recompiled OS'.

The Fedora Legacy does not seem to have this level of compensation and so it has languished. I can only mea-culpa.