Patrice Dumas <pertusus@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 07:48:07PM -0300, Horst H. von Brand wrote: [...] > > Sorry to disagree, but I've seen users of Red Hat 7.3 who are completely > > oblivious to the fact that there will be no more updates to the > > distribution. And others who never bothered to update anything at all. > > In my (limited) experience, people don't update unless it happens > > automatically, or something important breaks visibly. > I think that it really depends on the user. Sure does. > For the users you describe > having partial updates is indeed better than having no updates at all. I'm not so sure it would make a difference one way or the other for those users. > But I think that Jeff had in mind sysadmins who use fedora in a > plannified way and want to be able to predict when they'll need to do > the switch. Also my point. And if the regular Fedora EOL isn't enough, a "8 months, or perhaps 2, more than that" promise won't cut it. We used Fedora on servers of labs at the university. Sometimes the new release fell into inconvenient times in the term, so we just weathered it out 'till term end (as long as it was before EOL). Sometimes we would have liked to extend its use another term (when some new Fedora turned out less-than-stellar, or the new release was too close to term start for decent testing before commiting for production use). But if there was no firm date for definitive EOL, this won't work. So we switched the servers over to CentOS (mostly the same administration, much longer life) and kept the stations on Fedora (latest glitter, exactly what our userbase expects). -- 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
