On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 22:59 -0500, David Mansfield wrote: > On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 22:42 -0500, Yaakov Nemoy wrote: > > On Jan 22, 2008 10:16 PM, David Mansfield <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I'm fairly new to this list so if this is flame-bait, then I apologize. > > > I was wondering whether there is any possibility of having the > > > occasional 'long term support' (LTS) release of Fedora (say one every > > > two years or something) so that users can settle down with the distro > > > and actually become productive with it. > > > > > > Say the LTS cycle is one release every two years (every fourth Fedora > > > release), and that the 'long term' for support only lasts for two years > > > (which is pretty short to use the term long for, I realize), then there > > > would only be one LTS release, and also the most current release to > > > worry about at any given time. > > > > > > If there is simply not enough teampower to do this, then that's > > > understood. > > > > Just like every other Fedora related project, teampower is always an > > issue. That alone could shoot down the idea. RHEL and CentOS are > > certainly there if you do need something more stable, with I think > > nearly 7 years support per release. I'm not sure how Fedora and its > > Community would benefit from a direct Fedora LTS release. That "Other > > Well Known Distro Maker" releases their LTS product with a similar > > target audience that RHEL and CentOS serves. The people that use > > You're not suggesting I use the 'Other Well Known Distro' are you? > Seriously, though, on my latest laptop I tried CentOS 5, and it was > awful on a laptop. Synaptic problems, networkmanager problems, crappy > wireless support (out of date) etc. I killed it in about a week. I > also tried the Other distro and as a Fedora (and Red Hat Linux before > that) guy, it just doesn't do it for me. Old dog, new tricks. It > lasted about a month. That said, updating every 6 months doesn't do it > for me either. What's a Fedora lover to do? But new hardware will always be a problem for older distros, try installing the last Ubuntu LTS on your laptop... when we next do a Fedora/RHEL split which will be RHEL6 all the hw that is supported in Fedora will follow across.. Dave. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
