End of life for FC12?

[Patrick Bartek]

--- On Tue, 11/9/10, Kevin Fenzi <kevin at scrye.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 09 Nov 2010 12:23:30 -0600
> Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > Per:  
> > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-June/002830.html
> > 
> > "Fedora 12 will continue to receive updates until
> approximately one
> > month after the release of Fedora 14. The maintenance
> schedule of"
> > Fedora releases is documented on the Fedora Project
> wiki."
> > 
> > I did get an update to fuse for FC12 sunday, so it
> doesn't seem dead
> > yet...
> 
> Fedora 12's end of life is 2010-12-02.
> 
> You have until then to look at upgrading to f13/f14. ;) 

Just because it's EOL doesn't mean it stops working on that date, too. ;-)

Since FC6 (I've been using Fedora since Core 3), I've only upgraded with every third release--6-9-12.  I think it wasteful of time and energy to upgrade any faster.  It takes almost the 6 month release cycle to get everything working smoothly anyway.  Then chuck it all and start anew with a new set of problems?  No thanks.

I've gotten to the point where I'm tiring of Fedora's fast release cycle.  I need a longer life OS.  I build my personal systems to last about 5 to 7 years with periodic hardware upgrades as needed.  I'd like the OS last that long, too.  My current system is only 4 years old and has already had 3 versions of Fedora on it.

I've looked at the beta of RHEL 6, which seems to be based on F12/13, and it's "current" enough for my needs.  (5 along with CentOS and Scientific Linux versions are too old being seemingly based on FC6.)  So, when the new RHEL is release, about a month later, I'll take a look at CentOS 6, and go from there.

Of course, there's always Debian 6.0. ;-)  It's in Beta now.  Stable should be out Februaryish.  Or March.  Or April.  With Debian, you can never tell.

B