RHEL 3.0 or Fedora for a 'production environment' ?

[Jesse Keating]

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On Saturday 01 November 2003 10:34, Oscar A. Valdez wrote:
> Will Red Hat somehow enforce the "Update Lifetime: 2-3 months after next
> release" rule? Isn't Fedora Legacy about not being bound by it?

Red Hat cannot enforce that.  Fedora Legacy isn't bound by anything but 
what community can really do.  It's not like Red Hat is forcing you to 
update, they just won't support releases for very long.  They can't 
financially.  Legacy is there to pick up the slack for somewhere around a 
total life span of about 1.5 years.

> Don't get me wrong: I believe Red Hat has every right to do what they
> are doing. I also think RHEL is a viable model for commercial Linux, and
> that Red Hat is being very decent by supporting Fedora. It's just that
> for some us, (and not only *.edu, but also Third World), RHEL is not an
> option: I'm trying to determine what my real options are.

Correct.  That is why Legacy was launched.  I work for a company that sells 
hardware to a lot of the smaller offices and .edu places.  We know the 
need for a distro much like RHL of old.  Legacy hopes to make Fedora Core 
that distro, while not breaking RH's bank, or our customers.  But, we can 
only do it with the support of the community and other IHVs.  I've gotten 
the company I work for to donate a server, collocation, and some of my man 
hours.  The more contributers we get, the better Legacy, and therefor 
Fedora Core, can be.

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