Ok, I now see in the FAQ that Legacy doesn't support x86_64. But regardless of the item buried deep in the FAQ, the general population thinks Legacy will maintain whatever Red Hat produces, and since that's not the case, it should be made prominently clear. The Fedora Project makes statements like "the Fedora Steering Committee would like to announce the transfer of Fedora Core 2 to the Fedora Legacy Project" on its web page. There's an implication here that Legacy will then do something with the release, and that implication makes people who are deciding what distro to use feel that they won't be stranded if they use Fedora. I shouldn't have to read a FAQ on another website to find critical info when I choose whether to run a distro (but I think I did, in fact, read the Legacy FAQ when I made that decision last summer). Right now the only hint that not everything recent is maintained is the little word "select" on the front page. I think an appropriate (and fairly minimal) notice would be to add a statement to the "What is..." section of the main web page like "Note that we do not maintain updates for all architectures or all releases; please refer to the maintenance grid for more information" and link that to a grid listing all of the RH releases down the left, all of the architectures across the top, and giving a letter in each cell: Y maintained N not maintained n/a combination never existed F future maintenance planned D maintenance being dropped within the next 2 months Of course, I hope for x86_64 maintenance soon. The architecture is widely used in HPC environments, particularly in academia, and it is particularly difficult to upgrade the OS on an HPC cluster. I'd be willing to bet that, if approached, AMD or even Red Hat would provide the necessary hardware. Getting QA testers is key, of course. Users will be growing in number, though I don't know what the numbers are for FC2. Thanks, --jh-- -- fedora-legacy-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legacy-list
