On Mon, 2011-01-10 at 17:21 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > We do this because the lifecycle of Fedora is not compatible with > > providing and maintaining a long life hosting infrastructure. Does that > > mean that Fedora is not an ideal platform for server deployments lasting > > longer than a year and a half? Yes, in my humble opinion. > > You are expecting users to live with this life-cycle (on servers and > clients), so you telling us that Fedora is unsuitable for Fedora's own > servers seems rather poor to me. We want to provide stability, which does not mean constantly upgrading the server's base os. > > Don't get me wrong, the lifecycle of Fedora is great for many things, > > but the lifecycle of RHEL is far more appropriate for our hosting and > > infrastructure needs. > Don't get me wrong - Fedora's life-cycle works very well, even on servers. Doesn't work for me and never really has. It's not a support lifetime that's suitable for a server. I doubt you'll find many people in the industry who support a fair number of people who would argue. -sv _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board
