End of life for FC12?

Patrick Bartek bartek047 at yahoo.com
Fri Nov 12 16:31:37 UTC 2010


--- On Wed, 11/10/10, Gordon Messmer <yinyang at eburg.com> wrote:

> 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.

That's okay as long as the OS is "current" when it is installed and will be supported for those 5 years or so.  (I'm not a cutting edge type of person.  It matters little to me whether something is new or old as long as it works and satifies my requirements.)  I wouldn't install, say, CentOS 5, on a new or old system today and not expect problems, either today or later.  That's why I'm waiting for CentOS 6 or Debian 6, etc. to be released before doing anything to my current 4 year old system--Fedora 12 64-bit.

However, nothing has been written in stone.

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