Dmitry Butskoy <buc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > David Mansfield 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. > > Well, I actually use Fedora in a strong production environment (power > control office). The current policy (the EOL of F<n> is one month > after the F<n+2>) provides me one year LTS (assuming the release is > per half-year). Thus I just skip one release, > i.e. FC1-->FC3-->FC5-->F7 . > > One-year LTS is an acceptable compromise for me. But ideally, from the > "production" point of view, I would prefer 9-month cycle (and hence > 1.5year LTS) ... While others are screaming that the very-latest (kernel|gcc|Gnome|KDE|...) won't show up for some /months/yet! Can't have it both ways, 6 months is a (reasonably) happy compromise... -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 2654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 2654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 2797513 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
