Danny Terweij - Net Tuning | Net wrote:
Easy: If you don't like that, don't use FC for production.
Nice advertising line.. put it on the FC website in big red letters :)
It used to be there. Not sure what happened to it.
Fedora Core was designed from the start to be a leading-edge (or,
depending on your perspective, bleeding-edge) distribution. It's great
if you want the latest and greatest and you don't mind upgrading your
system every 9-12 months.
Fedora Legacy was designed to provide extra support time so that people
who wanted to use Fedora but only upgrade once every 1-1.5 years could
do so without leaving their systems insecure for 6 months at a time, and
to keep the last Red Hat Linux releases viable past their official end
of life.
If you really don't want to upgrade on a regular basis, there are other
distributions that may be a better fit for you. If you still like the
Red Hat way of doing things, but want long-term OS stability, there's
Red Hat Enterprise Linux and its various clones like CentOS and White
Box Linux (I've had good experiences with CentOS, and I'll recommend
it). You can also move toward another distro like Debian.
Keep in mind, though, that once you go to a long-term stability-focused
distro like RHEL or Debian, you're going to find yourself upgrading
applications manually or from third-party sources, because part of that
stability is gained by not moving apps, libraries and services to new
versions except for bug fixes and security fixes. Which brings us back
to Fedora Legacy.
Oh, and one more thing: You may have heard the phrase "You'll catch more
flies with honey than with vinegar." Waltzing into a community and
insulting their work is not likely to accomplish much beyond making
people angry.
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Kelson Vibber
SpeedGate Communications <www.speed.net>
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