On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 09:57:58PM -0800, Andrew Farris wrote: > David Mansfield wrote: >> 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 wireless support (out of date) etc.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? > > You could skip every other Fedora release and get a full year between your > upgrades, still getting the lastest security patches the whole time. F7 > doesn't go to EOL until F9 releases. Not really. You have to wait ~6 months for the newest release to stabalize before upgrading to it, so that cuts down the maintained lifetime to only 6 months. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
