Where are we going? (Not a rant)

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 12/08/2012 06:07 AM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 7:26 PM, Arun SAG <sagarun at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 5:32 AM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" <johannbg at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
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>>>> If we want to solve this we need to release an Fedora LTS release for our
>>>> and the potential other user >base that don't have to/want to update every 6
>>>> or 12 months.
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>> Completely agree on this one. In my day job we started using Fedora as one
>> of our desktop os. Then support  issues and upgrade cycle started giving
>> nightmares to corp IT. They are looking at other avenues now. I really wish
>> there is a LTS release for this awesome distro -  Fedora.
>
> Why does there need to be a long-term support for Fedora?

My primary problem with Fedora isn't "lack of stability", but lack of 
API/ABI and UI-stability/persistence/sustainability between upgrades.

In other words, I can cope with the number of crashes upgrades typically 
come along with, but the number "UI-changes" is what makes Fedora 
difficult to use for me.

> Why not just
> use Red Hat Enterprise Linux?

My view: RHEL is not an alternative to Fedora. CentOS would be a 
candidate alternative to Fedora, however due to the nature of its 
upstream and its upstream target audience (servers) it lacks a lot to be 
functionally "on par" with Fedora.

That said, if I was managing a larger network, I'd likely choose CentOS 
as base OS and harvest Fedora to setup a custom "add-on" repo.

Ralf