Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Jeff Spaleta wrote: > > On Jan 24, 2008 11:38 PM, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Also, wouldn't you consider the fact Ubuntu launches "Ubuntu LTS" to be > >> evidence enough that others see a market nice? > > I'm pretty sure that Ubuntu LTS is something that Canonical as a > > business entity as chosen to launch and leverages as part of its > > business model and is not in point of fact relying primarily on > > community manpower to make the LTS offering actually work. Find me a > > business entity who would like to do something similar in Fedora space > > and I'll gladly talk to them about making room in the project. > How about a slight variation on the fedora LTS plan that might vastly > reduce the needed work and let people keep running without the dangers > of going without security fixes? What if the versions supported were > the ones used as the base of the RHEL cuts, and the subsequent updates > were recompiled from the CentOS source RPM's? There's a certain > amount of incest or irony there, depending on how you look at it, but > isn't re-using work what free software is supposed to be all about? I don't see how that is less work (for the distribution-hackers, that is) than just suggesting going with CentOS + CentOSPlus + EPEL... -- 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
