On Fri, 16 Nov 2018 17:58:36 +0100, you wrote: >Gerald Henriksen wrote: >> I think the problem is that for a consumer / desktop oriented product >> - which we seem to be talking about given that this appears to be >> driven in part by the desire of hardware vendors - the RHEL/CentOS >> release cycle leads to problems for several years worth of hardware >> releases. >> >> If you are a hardware vendor would you want to be releasing a laptop >> running CentOS 7.x today, with its outdated versions of much of the >> software (that is a value to the enterprise server market, but less so >> consumer)? > >But the same goes for ANY LTS distribution! > >No distro is going to do LTS releases with 37 month support every 6 months. >It would mean supporting 7 releases at once! Of course not, which is one of the reasons why moving to a 12 month release cycle may be a better idea, with a sort of LTS release maybe every 2 years. _______________________________________________ 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
