On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 2:55 PM Stephen John Smoogen <smooge@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > From what I have talked with in the past.. 3 years is their bare > minimum and 7 is their what we really want. It usually takes the > vendor about 3-6 months of work to make sure the OS works on their > hardware without major problems and then they want people to buy > support contracts for 3-5 years where the number of problems needed in > year 3-5 are none. [This means that they want to have Fedora N for 3-6 > months before their laptops ship with it. So you ship them a frozen > preload before you release to public. They also want any shipped to > 'last' for the warranty cycle because trying to deal with update > questions when N eol's in the middle costs them a lot.] If 7 years is what manufacturers really want, then it sounds like CentOS is much better positioned to be get shipped on laptops than Fedora. Instead of working on a new "Fedora LTS" for this usage case, would time be better spent improving EPEL and CentOS for the desktop/laptop use case? I'd always thought of CentOS/RHEL as "Fedora LTS" anyway, to be honest. Ben Rosser _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
