On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 4:55 PM, Henrique Junior henriquecsj@gmail.com wrote:
Hello, everyone, I would like to share with you an situation related to Fedora's time of life that comes to me in recent days. I was recently promoted to Software Manager in the governmental partition where I work. Next year we've plans to migrate 500 Linux desktop stations and, in the last month, finished the migration of all servers to CentOS. The question that worries me is that, despite the willingness to use Fedora, dealing with an "end of life" of 13 months can make Fedora impractical in these 500 desktops. I'll be pressed to use Ubuntu and even got to think about maintain by myself an repository for maintaining, maybe, the most important RPMs always updated even if the Fedora come to the inevitable 13 months of use. Perhaps it is time to seek volunteers to bring back the Fedora Legacy and see if more people are interested this time.
Regards from Brazil
A few points/questions: * Does CentOS not meet your desktop needs? * You should have a local repo for 500 machines anyways. You don't want untested updates going to your 500 machines * I don't think you're going to label running your desktops on a Ubuntu LTS release as a "bad thing" * As I understand it, Fedora Legacy died out of lack of interest, not due to some intentional action