On Jan 22, 2008 10:59 PM, Jeff Spaleta <jspaleta@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The is a harder question, that none of the requests like yours for a > Fedora LTS have even thought to ask is this: Where is the business > interest that will drive an LTS release in the Fedora ecosystem? So > far Red Hat isn't the business entity, they charted a course that > doesn't include a Fedora LTS. That is Red Hat's call and if you have > a problem with that, I'm pretty sure Red Hat has some sort of sales > structure through which you can attempt to convince them to change > their sales offerings by madly waving money in front of them while you > talk about what you'd like to see them sell you in terms of services. > > But failing that, If you want an LTS in Fedora space, patterned on the > LTS that Canonical is offering then you need to find a business > interest willing to support it and make it happen. If you can find an > entity who wants to make a serious effort at building a business on a > Fedora LTS, point me to them and I'll do my best to bring them in to > the Fedora process so they can get a running start on it. I challenge > you to find that entity. > > -jef"branes"spaleta > I worked out the numbers for doing that at one time.. and it wasn't pretty... especially when people want all of Fedora to be supported for 2 years. The best price I came to was 2x what Red Hat charges for an RHEL license to cover basic costs.. if a company wanted to actually stay in business it was a lot more... especially when you would need to make sure you had at least 200 paying customers. Cutting down the supported packages basically brought it down to a much smaller segment than what is in RHEL before you could get what most fedora users would consider reasonable (say 50/year). It also makes it hard in that half the customers want the latest stuff compiled for their older OS and the other half want only backports. Brrrrraaaaaiiiinnnnnzzzz -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- CSIRT/Linux System Administrator How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice" -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
