plans for long term support releases?

Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Wed Jan 17 01:40:12 UTC 2007


On Tuesday 16 January 2007 17:26, Thomas M Steenholdt wrote:
> This is why I suggested an more stable (in terms of changes) LTS spin,
> perhaps, for every 2-4 normal Fedora releases, to provide a Fedora that
> could actually be used in these situations. (i know it is the way it is
> for a reason, so this is in no way an attempt to bad-mouth Fedora as it
> is. It's meant as a suggestion for further improvement). I also realize
> that providing such a release would be very much like RHEL and CentOS,
> but I got the impression that we were starting to open up and become
> more than the fast-rolling testbed distro that will be snapshot and
> stabilized into RHEL, in which case something like this could help us to
> reach more users/uses for Fedora.

So every 2 to 4 releases of Fedora, call something a LTS release, do more QA 
and different update styles for it, support it for a long time, and market it 
as the Fedora for production use.

Wait, how is this _not_ RHEL/CentOS?

-- 
Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora
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