Meta-cycles: 2-3 year major cycles for free software? (Here Be Dragons)

Posted Apr 23, 2009 8:19 UTC (Thu) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946)
In reply to: Meta-cycles: 2-3 year major cycles for free software? (Here Be Dragons) by sbergman27
Parent article: Meta-cycles: 2-3 year major cycles for free software? (Here Be Dragons)

I wasn't aware that Red Hat promised any particular release schedule for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Pointers?

Meta-cycles: 2-3 year major cycles for free software? (Here Be Dragons)

Posted Apr 23, 2009 20:41 UTC (Thu) by sbergman27 (guest, #10767) [Link]

I find it difficult to believe that you, Rahul, are truly unaware that Red Hat explicitly declared an 18-24 month release cycle for the RHEL product throughout the RHEL2.1 -> RHEL 5.0 time period. (No. I didn't make it up.)

You might have a look around the redhat.com site. But considering the situation with RHEL6, I would expect that they have quietly removed that by this time.

Meta-cycles: 2-3 year major cycles for free software? (Here Be Dragons)

Posted Apr 23, 2009 20:48 UTC (Thu) by sbergman27 (guest, #10767) [Link]

Then again... it might still be on the site:

http://www.redhat.com/f/pdf/rhel/rhel5_overview.pdf

Just search for the numbers 18 or 24.