Fedora 7: The Linux Knight in Shining Armor?
Reg Clemens
reg at dwf.com
Mon Jan 22 18:57:23 UTC 2007
> Now, this is a great idea. No more worrying about upgrades or do I have
> enough time before the next release to make all the changes. What about
> he secondary repositories for things that will never be in Fedora proper
> that you have to wait to be released.
>
> I would like to see Fedora 7 or Fedora 8 become just Fedora and then no
> more 6 month release dates. Just updates to what would be the next release.
>
I think this is a very good idea.
With the possibility of twice a year updates of more CDs than I can count,
and with the dropping of Fedora Legacy support, I think this whole Fedora-N
thing is going to fall apart.
I for one run Fedora on my machines at home, and the machines I support at
the Lab. It doesn't matter how good or extensive the distribution is, I am
required to have Security updates on my machines at the Lab. With the dissolution
of the Fedora Legacy project, I am seriously considering moving those machines
to Centos. It may not be advanced as Fedora, but I can expect support for
a number of years. Now if Fedora7 became just Fedora, with updates forever
that would solve the problem.
At home, I have one or two machines that I follow Fedora updates on
as they come out, or at least every-other update. However my Firewall is
stable, and I don't see updating it to a new distribution all that often.
Ditto my MythTV installation. Updating there is almost suicide. Still
I don't want to do without security based updates.
Having Fedora7 become just Fedora with updates forever would solve both
problems.
Just my opinions, but everyone I know has the same worries about Fedora
since Legacy went away, and they are looking at other distributions.
Reg.Clemens
reg at dwf.com
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