reviving Fedora Legacy

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Mon Oct 13 14:33:22 UTC 2008


Jeffrey Ollie wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 8:55 AM, Patrice Dumas <pertusus at free.fr> wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 09:23:37AM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
>>> Ah.  And how is that different from CentOS?  At the time CentOS 5 was
>>> release, it also contained the latest "innovative" technologies.  So,
>>> what would be different about a Fedora LTS?
>> Because it is not possible to switch to centos from all fedora releases.
>> Right now you cannot switch from F8 to any centos, and even an updated F6
>> couldn't switch to centos 5. So it would be interesting for F6, F7, F8.
>> Maybe not F9 if switching from an updated F9 to centos 6 is possible,
>> but will centos 6 be ready in 6 months?
> 
> If you have a system you are developing that needs to run on
> RHEL/CentOS, you start development on RHEL/CentOS not on Fedora.

That doesn't make sense.  If you expect your system to run on RH6 that 
would mean you couldn't start development until after it is released.

> The
> same goes for anything - if you were going to deploy on Ubuntu 8.04
> (the most recent LTS version) you wouldn't start development on Ubuntu
> 8.10 would you?

You don't plan to release something new on the last version of a 
distribution, you plan for the next - so yes, Ubuntu 8.10 would be a 
suitable development platform and Ubuntu has so far had a reasonable 
update process to their next versions (but admittedly they haven't had a 
hard one like going from a 2.4 to a 2.6 kernel yet).

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   Les Mikesell
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