Rolling release Fedora - fantastic idea

[Jos Vos]

On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 11:26:49AM -0500, Przemek Klosowski wrote:

> At the same time, if the deployment is successful, we're no longer 
> chasing the latest features, and the stability becomes paramount---the 
> good is the enemy of the best. For a while, Fedora allows us to coast on 
> such a running system, but then we're caught by the EOL.

As explained earlier, at Fxx EOL, the newest RHEL software is older
than the Fxx software, so this not make much sense.

> What do you do with your Fedora systems deployed long-term? update them 
> as soon as new version comes up? leave them running? don't use Fedora 
> for the long term?

Yes, Fedora is not for long term if updates/security are an issue.
Period.

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