Rolling release model philosophy (was Re: Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule (was Re: f18: how to install into a LVM partitions (or RAID)))

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Mon Nov 5 12:53:37 UTC 2012


On 11/05/2012 01:11 AM, Matěj Cepl wrote:
> On Fri, 02 Nov 2012 20:55:38 +0000, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote:
>> and one "stable" release ( valid for 2 maybe 3 years ) for those in the
>> community that want something they dont constantly having to upgrade to
>> and can deploy on their servers. ( ofcourse to have a stable release we
>> first and foremost would need maintainers willing to maintain the
>> distribution for that time, epel could maybe be simply dropped for that
>> ).
>
> That's called CentOS,
Nope ... CentOS/RHEL is a different end of extremes.

7 years+ life-time, no API changes, etc.

What is lacking is a middle ground between "Fedora" and "CentOS".

Something with a life-time of "~2 years", with API increments etc.

Ralf



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