why I'm using Ubuntu instead of Fedora ATM

[Jeremy Katz]

On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 10:29 -0500, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Wednesday 03 January 2007 04:45, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> > Agreed. We always point people to RHEL or CentOS and I think that
> > becomes more and more a problem, especially now that Legacy is dead.
> >
> > A Fedora LTS (two years? maybe the server parts ever three?) now and
> > then (every second or third release?) from a new Fedora Legacy (needs a
> > different name) would IMHO a nice solution.
> 
> My question here is who will do the work?  If you want to feed from RHEL 
> updates, then you're basically only going to be doing backports, no new 
> versions.  You're also only going to be fixing bugs that are deemed worthy 
> through the RHEL process, which usually needs a paid customer reporting the 
> problem, etc, etc...  They are different beasts and the work still has to be 
> done to build packages, push them through a QA / update process, take bugs 
> in, do QA, etc, etc, etc...

There are also (non-trivial) differences in the package set.  The Fedora
universe is large... :)

Jeremy