End of life for FC12?

Gordon Messmer yinyang at eburg.com
Thu Nov 11 07:47:37 UTC 2010


On 11/09/2010 07:35 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote:
> 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.
...
> 5 along with CentOS and
> Scientific Linux versions are too old being seemingly based on FC6.

If you want your OS to last 5 to 7 years, your package version are going 
to be old.  To paraphrase Babbage, I am not able rightly to apprehend 
the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such requirements.


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