On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 9:33 AM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Jeffrey Ollie wrote:
>
> On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 8:55 AM, Patrice Dumas <pertusus(a)free.fr> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 09:23:37AM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
>>>
>>> Ah. And how is that different from CentOS? At the time CentOS 5 was
>>> release, it also contained the latest "innovative" technologies.
So,
>>> what would be different about a Fedora LTS?
>>
>> Because it is not possible to switch to centos from all fedora releases.
>> Right now you cannot switch from F8 to any centos, and even an updated F6
>> couldn't switch to centos 5. So it would be interesting for F6, F7, F8.
>> Maybe not F9 if switching from an updated F9 to centos 6 is possible,
>> but will centos 6 be ready in 6 months?
>
> If you have a system you are developing that needs to run on
> RHEL/CentOS, you start development on RHEL/CentOS not on Fedora.
That doesn't make sense. If you expect your system to run on RH6 that would
mean you couldn't start development until after it is released.
Sure it makes sense. With RHEL being supported for 7 years, I can
spend a year or so developing my service on RHEL X and have five or
six years before I have to upgrade to RHEL X+1 or X+2.
> The
> same goes for anything - if you were going to deploy on Ubuntu 8.04
> (the most recent LTS version) you wouldn't start development on Ubuntu
> 8.10 would you?
You don't plan to release something new on the last version of a
distribution, you plan for the next - so yes, Ubuntu 8.10 would be a
suitable development platform and Ubuntu has so far had a reasonable update
process to their next versions (but admittedly they haven't had a hard one
like going from a 2.4 to a 2.6 kernel yet).
Well it really depends on what I was building. If I was developing a
new desktop application what you say might make sense. If I was
developing an e-commerce web site you'd be nuts to do that.
--
Jeff Ollie
"You know, I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then
I thought, wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the
terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve
them? So, now I take great comfort in the general hostility and
unfairness of the universe."
-- Marcus to Franklin in Babylon 5: "A Late Delivery from Avalon"