On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 10:10:13AM -0500, Jesse Keating wrote: > So why don't you use CentOS which as a annual or every other year release? We use CentOS too. However, people a) want more cutting-edge and b) want Fedora. And if my group doesn't provide something that covers that demand, people will go off on their own, and then the security team will go back to being hugely overloaded with Linux break-ins. To expand on my earlier kvetching (sorry, no coffee yet): I'm not able to force anyone here to do anything. Therefore, I have to encourage good practice entirely via "carrots". This works best when we align with the academic year -- a release in the spring, current through the following summer to allow time for upgrades. Ideally, *two* years and a summer, but I understand that's not practical. As it is, what will happen is: whatever Fedora release is current as of June-July-August will get installed on people's systems, and, with goading, upgraded the next summer. If the actual Fedora release happens to be new in June-July, the 13-month plan will be great, but if the latest release was from, say, January, that leaves a big hole in which systems *will* get broken into. But, I find "If you need it to really work, use CentOS" to be a bad answer for Fedora. CentOS is great, but since it is by necessity in its own world, CentOS users don't feed back into the Fedora ecosystem in the same way, which is a big loss for Fedora. (With the new baby, I missed out on following the extras-for-RHEL discussion -- I need to check into how that's panning out, and how it fits with merging Extras and Core. The availability of Extras is currently a huge draw for Fedora over CentOS.) So, given the realities, we probably will end up shifting our main BU Linux efforts to Fedora, but may also provide a "BU Linux Extreme" Fedora spin. I'm not sure how best to fit this into our calendar. If we disregard that, we'll end up with insecure systems that just disregard *us*. Extending the lifespan from ~9 to ~13 months is a huge help, but to cover the gaps, we really need more like 18-19. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> -- fedora-legacy-list mailing list fedora-legacy-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legacy-list
