End of life for FC12?

Patrick Bartek bartek047 at yahoo.com
Sun Nov 14 19:15:46 UTC 2010


--- On Sun, 11/14/10, Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com> wrote:

> Patrick Bartek wrote:
> > [snip]
> >
> > 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.
> >
> I will probably be using CentOS-5.5 or later until CentOS-7
> comes out. RHEL6 is 
> dropping xen, and the little utility boxes I seem to build
> for firewall or 
> similar don't have HVM and can't support KVM. Hopefully xen
> will be back in 
> mainline soon, and people will have a choice how they want
> to run things.

I think you're SOL expecting XEN to be reinstated after being so resoundingly dropped in favor of KVM by Redhat.  I vaguely remember reading a press release about it.

Wait for CentOS 7?  Going to be long wait.  5 years(?), at least.  But patience _is_ a virtue. ;-)

B


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