Fedora = "the darker side of the Internet?"

[Bill Davidsen]

Tim wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-10-11 at 00:00 -0300, Fernando Cassia wrote:
>> But someone should tell them that there is plenty of light on RPM-land
>> (considering they put Fedora, RHEL and CentOS in the same bag).
>
> I think you all missed their point about wanting an install that has a
> longer lifespan.  They're jumping ship from Debian, and avoiding Red Hat
> derived distros, because they all change versions too often, and abandon
> prior releases too quickly for them.  I understand how they feel.
>
> Yes, CentOS, et cetera, have long life span versions, too.  But I
> haven't compared the length of theirs to the long term Ubuntu one.  And
> if you already came from a Debian background, Ubuntu is a closer move
> than a Red Hat styled release.
>
I would love to have just security bug fix on the system software for an extra 
year. I'm still running FC13, FC6 and RH8 in virtual machines because there are 
apps which are useful. Bless kvm.

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