Server Admins: Why not Fedora?

[Xose Vazquez Perez]

On 11/01/2013 05:49 PM, Stephen Gallagher wrote:

>  * Fedora moves too quickly!

I don't care, if the transition from old to new
/critical/ system features (e.g. dracut, systemd, dnf, etc...)
are well documented.

>  * Fedora has too short of a lifecycle!

That's the main problem. See what the neighbors are
doing:

Dist            Lifetime
===========     ===========
Arch                rolling
Gentoo              rolling

Ubuntu             9 months
*Fedora           13 months
Mageia            18 months
openSUSE          18 months

openSUSE_EG      3 years
Debian           3 years
Ubuntu_LTS       5 years
Slackware        5 years (at least)
RHEL_clones     10 years


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mageia#Version_history
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSUSE#Version_history
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian#Timeline
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_%28operating_system%29#Releases
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slackware#Support_term
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CentOS#End-of-support_schedule