long term support release

[Benny Amorsen]

Chuck Anderson <cra at WPI.EDU> writes:

> Not really.  You have to wait ~6 months for the newest release to 
> stabalize before upgrading to it, so that cuts down the maintained 
> lifetime to only 6 months.

Only if you expect others to do testing for you. Fedora requires you
to be more vigilant with updates, and not just rely on someone else to
find all the bugs before you do. On the other hand you get everything
while it's still fresh and shiny!


/Benny