[Fwd: Wikipidia - Goodbye Red Hat and Fedora]

[Toshio Kuratomi]

Les Mikesell wrote:
> Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
>>
>> No gotcha here.  I don't expect users to handle the issues.  Either the
>> users in question want the opportunity to run the latest software in an
>> integrated distro and so choose to run Fedora or they want to have a
>> stable platform on which to deploy their own work and therefore they use
>> CentOS/RHEL/Debian Stable.
> 
> No, it's not an either/or scenario. 

You're confusing what you want with what is.  What is *is* an either/or
scenario as there is no definite path from starting with Fedora to
getting to a long term OS.  What could be is a long term release for
certain releases if you and other like minded people do the work to
offer security updates and major bugfixes beyond the current EOL.

> Users may way to develop something
> new and be willing to put up with unstable fedora to get current tools
> for that, but there is no clear transition plan to put what they have
> built into production.  In the old RH X.0 -> X.1 -> X.2 days the
> transition from a new release to a stable OS usable in production
> happened through updates - now it doesn't happen at all.  Support is
> simply dropped for the platform you started on and there is no reason to
> expect anywhere near the same library versions and environment as you
> migrate to a stable platform.
> 
>> There's a right tool for any job and a wrong tool.  Using your crescent
>> wrench to hammer nails is possible but not very satisfying.
> 
> What's the 'right' tool to develop for the next version of Centos?
> 
Why, the initial release of the Fedora version that the next version of
CentOS is going to be based on, of course! :-)

And if you want to ask which version of Fedora that is, I'd like to ask
you how you knew there was going to be a RHL 6.2 but not a RHL 6.3; a
RHL 7.3, but not a RHL 8.1....

-Toshio

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