Thomas M Steenholdt wrote:
Now that Core and Extras are going to be merged and the distro is
opening up to become even more (?) community driven, has anyone played
with the though of eventually releasing a long term support version of
Fedora?
It could be a based on a staple snapshot of Fedora 7 + 4 months worth of
updates or whatever, at this point I'm more interested in hearing about
the idea than the details, which will surely follow, if i'm not the only
one who think this could be a good idea. Especially now that we're going
to do special server spins etc...
Just a thought (hope this was not brought up ages ago and I just missed it)
/Thomas
Note: Fedora Legacy began with this similar idea. At first Legacy did
reasonably well, but as time passed contributor interest waned, making
it unsustainable as a community project. This isn't to say that it
wouldn't be possible for the community to declare one version of Fedora
LTS and do a good job of it. But the precedent of history is against
the likelihood of this succeeding.
It is just too convenient for those users to use RHEL or CentOS.
Security is a *HARD* and boring problem, requiring constant vigilance
over long periods of time. This kind of project is difficult to sustain
with volunteers.
Nothing stops a community group from trying continue what Legacy began.
Just do it and prove that it is sustainable. But I am not optimistic
that it is possible.
Warren Togami
wtogami@xxxxxxxxxx
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