On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 09:50, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Wednesday 24 September 2003 06:40, Brian T. Brunner wrote: > > Rather RH10 is renamed, and is the first release of Fedora, which > > will continue much of the tradition, and much of the method, of RHL. > > > > How much "much" is, is the rest of the beef. > > The how much is the beef. 4~6 month release cycle (somewhat normal), > but errata only supplied for 3~4 months after the next release, giving > each Fedora Core release a 7~10 month life span. Also, Fedora will do > away with the previous strive to keep binary compatability going, and > instead bring in as much new stuff as possible, making rolling updates > impossible. Havoc has sated that Desktop users and production > environments are no longer the target audience of RHL/Fedora, instead > the hobby market is, with fast changes and constant new features. THis > makes Fedora all but unusable in any production place, where RHL was > still VERY useable, even with it's 1year+ lifespan. > > The bottom line is, RHL as we know it is gone. Period. In it's place, > we have some of the RHL bits, being paired with the Fedora contents, > and the start of a rapidly moving, constantly changing hobby distro > that is possibly full of breakage. Sound like Gentoo anybody? Those > of us that have build our businesses and practices around Red Hat Linux > are now left at a choice between forking over _large_ amounts of money > that we can't really afford for RHEL, or changing our businesses to go > with a different vendor of Linux, one that is undoubtedly lesser > quality than RHL of old and RHEL of current, or trying to make Fedora > Core a viable solution, putting in tons of man hours to try and > maintain backports for customers who just can't change everything every > 9~ months. > > Thats the beef, or at least my part of it. ---- Wow - seems to me that you have summarized the Fedora prospects pretty well...Debian appears better & better all the time. Thanks for the perspective. Craig -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
