On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 16:08 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 16:04 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 09:51 -0500, Alan Cox wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 12:56:20AM +1030, n0dalus wrote: > > > > Would it be possible for redhat to just extend security fixes for FCx > > > > until FC(x+2) comes out? I think if I was using an older release this > > > > is something I would really want. > > > > > > The Fedora Legacy project already does that and does it rather well. Why > > > would it be any different if a Red Hat person was notionally doing it ? > > > > As I see it, it's "having to change your system to change it again a > > couple of months later". > > > > Probably most of these people do not want to use Legacy in longer terms, > > but want to have see an overlap between 2 releases, because they skip > > releases and are afraid of seeing a gap between these releases. > > > > Another difference is marketing. "FC3 by RH" sounds differently than > > "FC3 by Legacy". > > > ... but.. FC3 isn't by RH. It's by the Fedora Project. That's what RH wants to make people believe. Reality is different - FC is directed, maintained and provided by RH. FE is the community provided set of packages, a "Fedora Project" isn't much more than a marketing bubble. > Fedora Legacy is > also under the Fedora Project.... Name make a differences. If RH simply provided the packages on the same directories, on the same servers and would exchange the personell from "RH to Legacy" underneath, probably nobody would notice. Ralf -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
