On 11/14/18 1:26 PM, Carmen Bianca Bakker wrote:
Je mer, 2018-11-14 je 18:34 +0100, Kevin Kofler skribis:
That is what make us different distro with its own user base. Want the
very same but LTS system? try CentOS. Or RHEL.
+1. LTS Fedora is what CentOS is for. Why should we not just point users who
want LTS to CentOS and EPEL?
Crazy idea: Would it be possible to integrate CentOS into the Fedora fold?
It's not a crazy idea at all, but the details are tricky. Since CentOS
is essentially a RHEL derivative, this would require RedHat
collaboration. In principle, Fedora is an R&D precursor for RHEL, but I
have not seen an official statement on how RedHat bakes RHEL out of Fedora.
If you squint at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux
, it seems that they fork Fedora every 4 or so years, and take about a
year of QA, while selectively (?) back-porting subsequent Fedora
developments. The result is RedHat-branded and released as RHEL; whereas
CentOS follows up while stripping RedHat branding (yes, there's a
certain amount of forth-and-back :)
I wonder if RedHat could be persuaded to modify their process to adopt a
Fedora release instead of forking it, and backport into that
release---let's call it "Fedora LTS a.k.a. CentOS Release Candidate"
(FLAC-RC :). It would require perhaps more effort on the part of RedHat
to avoid breakage in the middle of their development cycle, but that's
probably a good CI practice anyway.
Matthew, do you think that is something that RedHat might be interested in?
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