On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 9:33 AM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Jeffrey Ollie wrote: >> >> On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 8:55 AM, Patrice Dumas <pertusus@xxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>> On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 09:23:37AM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: >>>> >>>> Ah. And how is that different from CentOS? At the time CentOS 5 was >>>> release, it also contained the latest "innovative" technologies. So, >>>> what would be different about a Fedora LTS? >>> >>> Because it is not possible to switch to centos from all fedora releases. >>> Right now you cannot switch from F8 to any centos, and even an updated F6 >>> couldn't switch to centos 5. So it would be interesting for F6, F7, F8. >>> Maybe not F9 if switching from an updated F9 to centos 6 is possible, >>> but will centos 6 be ready in 6 months? >> >> If you have a system you are developing that needs to run on >> RHEL/CentOS, you start development on RHEL/CentOS not on Fedora. > > That doesn't make sense. If you expect your system to run on RH6 that would > mean you couldn't start development until after it is released. Sure it makes sense. With RHEL being supported for 7 years, I can spend a year or so developing my service on RHEL X and have five or six years before I have to upgrade to RHEL X+1 or X+2. >> The >> same goes for anything - if you were going to deploy on Ubuntu 8.04 >> (the most recent LTS version) you wouldn't start development on Ubuntu >> 8.10 would you? > > You don't plan to release something new on the last version of a > distribution, you plan for the next - so yes, Ubuntu 8.10 would be a > suitable development platform and Ubuntu has so far had a reasonable update > process to their next versions (but admittedly they haven't had a hard one > like going from a 2.4 to a 2.6 kernel yet). Well it really depends on what I was building. If I was developing a new desktop application what you say might make sense. If I was developing an e-commerce web site you'd be nuts to do that. -- Jeff Ollie "You know, I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them? So, now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe." -- Marcus to Franklin in Babylon 5: "A Late Delivery from Avalon" -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
