Linux.org: The Feodra 7 Year Itch

Juan Rodriguez nushio at fedoraproject.org
Thu Jun 21 16:11:44 UTC 2007


On 6/21/07, Chris Negus <cnegus at rucls.net> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2007-06-21 at 13:46 +0000, Bryan J Smith wrote:
> > Fedora Core is not more "Beta" than Red Hat Linux was before it. And
> until Red
> > Hat clarifies that - Enterprise Linux marketing be damned - those who
> want to
> > demonize it that way will continue, with nothing professionals like
> myself can
> > point to - other than our own publications or blog articles on the
> matter.
>
> I agree. Fedora is a weird case where reality is better than perception.
>
> Has anyone on the Fedora project considered making one stable Fedora
> release every three or four releases? You could promote the release as
> having:
>
> * Stable desktop and servers
> * Three years of security updates
> * Branding program with hardware manufacturers
>
> I think you could bring back a lot of the independent consultants who
> went to CentOS or elsewhere after the transition from Red Hat Linux. It
> could also quiet people who say cutting-edge = never-better-than-beta.
>
> -- Chris Negus
>
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Wouldn't that be like using  Fedora 4 with years of updates?
Fedora 5 support is ending soon, which means that software updates are no
longer being provided. Using a 3 year old Fedora + patches wouldn't make it
secure, it would make it old.

Just my 2 cents.

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Juan M. Rodriguez Moreno
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