On Thursday 21 December 2006 20:36, James Wilkinson wrote:
Anne Wilson wrote:
You miss the point, Kevin. Of course you can upgrade on older systems
- if you want to. I've done it myself. I have two boxes, though, that
run FC4 and for several reasons I do not want to upgrade them. It's just 10 months since FC4 was installed on both of them. I don't need the latest and greatest on either of them, but I do want security updates, and I'm not going to get them. Frankly, Legacy was the biggest reason I had for coming to Fedora. I understand about the lack of manpower in volunteer situations, but I'm less than happy. If I have to install afresh to get a secure system I'll probably change to CentOS rather than install FC6 on those boxes.
For what it's worth, there is a current official proposal that security support should be extended to about thirteen months -- support for installing one release, missing the next completely, and then when the release *two* after you'd originally installed came out, you'd have a month to upgrade.
See http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraSummit/ReleaseProcess (at the bottom in bold) and https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-advisory-board/2006-December/msg0009 9.html and the following thread.
I like Rahul's proposal. 13 months is just not quite good enough, because it takes a few weeks after release to get everything settled down. That could leave a server in a less than satisfactory situation for, say, a month. Doing it Rahul's way, servers could be updated annually, a few weeks after release time.
Anne