On Mon, 05 Nov 2012 13:53:37 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: >> That's called CentOS, > Nope ... CentOS/RHEL is a different end of extremes. > > 7 years+ life-time, no API changes, etc. > What is lacking is a middle ground between "Fedora" and "CentOS". > > Something with a life-time of "~2 years", with API increments etc. I am not saying that you are completely wrong, because you are not, but I would remind you that this thread started (at least for me) with adamw admission that we are not managing well even 13-month-distro, so I am afraid we don't have a luxury to think about ~2 years one at all. Moreover, RHEL/CentOS is not a Debian/stable, i.e, it is not 100% frozen (no API changes is just for kernel and core libraries, IIRC), and there are (especially in desktop land) some rebases, so I found it for my wife's usecase pretty useful. Looking at her computer I see firefox-10.0.10-1.el6_3.i686.rpm and libreoffice-3.4.5.2-16.1.el6_3.i686 ... certainly not a bleeding edge, but not unusably old. On the top of that, the past is not an indicator of the future (and I DO NOT say anything about the future ... NDA, not talking for my employer, etc.) but new releases of RHEL usually come in some ~2-3 years you desired, so if you are willing to reinstall with every new RHEL/CentOS (or with version x.1, which is quite common), then that could be your desired system. Just saying, Matěj -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
