On 6/21/07, Jesse Keating <jkeating@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thursday 21 June 2007 11:49:57 Chris Negus wrote: > Has anyone on the Fedora project considered making one stable Fedora > release every three or four releases? You could promote the release as > having: > > * Stable desktop and servers > * Three years of security updates > * Branding program with hardware manufacturers We do, it's called Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Red Hat is not doubt the leader, But you do not mention the cost. I'm going to mention some words of the writer very healthily: "Perhaps a lesson from the Debian project is in order: release no distribution before its time. Fedora 7 developers have released a distribution that's not ready for prime time." Debian provides this type of structure in its distribution, maintaining a unstable version, must understood like "unstable safe" or a "stable risk", at the same time its to stay in bloody line of the technology adding efforts in maintaining a version completelly "stable", this does not means that Fedora cannot be used in production environment, (sometimes Fedora is considering as a experimental distributions) but I must recognize that it constitutes a risk, a sysadm know that a package must be consider stable "with time in the market production", its RHEL and CentOS and is here where maybe the branch stable Debian version wins. Fedora need a official stable release (as Debian stable or CentOS for RHEL) matters only for security updates version of choice for networks and servers for those for whom dependability matters more than the latest software, and on one hand the already customary itch out releases. I believe that Red Hat I do not want to create a new competition of RHEL and this is the reason for which a branch stable of Fedora is impossible beyond of operative costs that imply to maintain it. -- Wilmer Jaramillo M. GPG Key Fingerprint = 0666 D0D3 24CE 8935 9C24 BBF1 87DD BEA2 A4B2 1E8A -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list
