On Jan 23, 2008 8:20 AM, David Mansfield <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 21:21 -0700, Richi Plana wrote: > > On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 22:16 -0500, David Mansfield wrote: > > > 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. > > > > I was about to say that that is exactly what RHEL-to-CentOS is for, but > > thinking about it, I think I know what your problem is with CentOS. > > > > One thing not factored with CentOS is how old it is compared to the > > version of Fedora that it's supposed to be based upon. If I understand > > you correctly, your concept of LTS is based on the Final stable release > > of Fedora and will be supported for two years as opposed to some version > > of CentOS which upon release is probably years behind the final release > > of rawhide it was based on and therefore obsolete with hardware (which > > also has a fast release cycle). (Could someone do the math?) > > > > Did I understand your problem correctly? > > That's certainly a big part of it. A big part. You're right, when > Fedora comes out, it's at least current for the hardware of the day, but > when CentOS does come out with a major release, it's not even going to > work right on that same hardware, let alone new hardware that comes out > later. > > Also, there are quirks that appear in the EL spins that weren't there in > the Fedora releases. One example is some weird synaptic touchpad > problem I had that was only on the EL kernels. Is that ever going to > get fixed? No, it's not even a bug in the synaptic code, its somewhere > else. That's just an example though. > If its a bug in the kernel or EL shipped hardware it should be fixed (if Red Hat knows about it) I don't know what the problem is exactly as the few synaptics touchpads I have worked with 5.0 and 5.1. -- 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
