Re: Important information regarding the merger of core and extras, and what this means to Legacy

2006-11-16 Thread Mike McCarty
Gene Heskett wrote: I can't help but agree that its too short. 3 or 6 would be much more realistic from the users viewpoint, who has his setup all fine tuned and doesn't want to go thru that on an annual basis. There are other things to life you know. Yeah, like repairing vintage tube

Re: Important information regarding the merger of core and extras, and what this means to Legacy

2006-11-16 Thread Matthew Miller
On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 10:40:57PM -0500, Nils Breunese wrote: Every system needs an admin. I don't think it's realistic to not run 'yum update' for a year and expect everything to be fine. If you'd If there's no updates available, it doesn't matter how often they run yum update. --

Re: Important information regarding the merger of core and extras, and what this means to Legacy

2006-11-16 Thread Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)
Matthew Miller wrote: On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 10:40:57PM -0500, Nils Breunese wrote: Every system needs an admin. I don't think it's realistic to not run 'yum update' for a year and expect everything to be fine. If you'd If there's no updates available, it doesn't matter how often they run

Re: Important information regarding the merger of core and extras, and what this means to Legacy

2006-11-16 Thread Matthew Miller
On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 10:39:12AM -0500, Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wrote: That's why every system needs an admin (and not a nightly yum cron job). A real admin will know or notice there are no updates available and take appropriate action. Preaching to the choir. However, there's reality

Re: Important information regarding the merger of core and extras, and what this means to Legacy

2006-11-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 16 November 2006 08:48, Mike McCarty wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: I can't help but agree that its too short. 3 or 6 would be much more realistic from the users viewpoint, who has his setup all fine tuned and doesn't want to go thru that on an annual basis. There are other things to

Re: Important information regarding the merger of core and extras, and what this means to Legacy

2006-11-15 Thread James Kosin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jesse Keating wrote: See my blog regarding the future of Legacy as a project. Please remember these are just proposals and not final solutions. A wiki page will follow soon. http://jkeating.livejournal.com/#entry_34659 I hope this doesn't

Re: Important information regarding the merger of core and extras, and what this means to Legacy

2006-11-15 Thread Jesse Keating
On Wednesday 15 November 2006 08:49, James Kosin wrote: I may have some critical things to say about participation; but, I still believe the community of participators can support a 6-12 month window with the FC releases fall aside.  This will give those who choose to wait for a few months

Re: Important information regarding the merger of core and extras, and what this means to Legacy

2006-11-15 Thread Matthew Miller
On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 10:06:57PM -0600, Eric Rostetter wrote: First I would like to say to those who say Fedora Legacy has failed, that it _did_ work (i.e. didn't fail) for the most critical time period and the most critical OS version (RHL 7-9, FC1). If it has failed, or is failing, it

Re: Important information regarding the merger of core and extras, and what this means to Legacy

2006-11-15 Thread Jesse Keating
On Wednesday 15 November 2006 09:45, James Kosin wrote: Hmmm.   maybe a better upgrade path would be in order.  Allowing users to keep their configuration; with minor changes and upgrade the units to FC6-FC7-FC8 etc.  without any troubles. I'll have to give that a try someday. We're also

Re: Important information regarding the merger of core and extras, and what this means to Legacy

2006-11-15 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 15 November 2006 09:23, Matthew Miller wrote: On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 10:06:57PM -0600, Eric Rostetter wrote: First I would like to say to those who say Fedora Legacy has failed, that it _did_ work (i.e. didn't fail) for the most critical time period and the most critical OS

Re: Important information regarding the merger of core and extras, and what this means to Legacy

2006-11-15 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 15 November 2006 10:10, Jesse Keating wrote: On Wednesday 15 November 2006 09:54, Gene Heskett wrote: I can't help but agree that its too short. 3 or 6 would be much more realistic from the users viewpoint, who has his setup all fine tuned and doesn't want to go thru that on an

Re: Important information regarding the merger of core and extras, and what this means to Legacy

2006-11-15 Thread Jeff Sheltren
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Nov 15, 2006, at 10:15 AM, Jesse Keating wrote: On Wednesday 15 November 2006 08:49, James Kosin wrote: I may have some critical things to say about participation; but, I still believe the community of participators can support a 6-12 month

Re: Important information regarding the merger of core and extras, and what this means to Legacy

2006-11-15 Thread Bill Perrotta
That is fine where can i download an iso of centos? If it is similar enough to do all labs for rhel3 rhce that is my only concern.Jesse Keating [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 15 November 2006 09:54, Gene Heskett wrote: I can't help but agree that its too short. 3 or 6 would be much more

Re: Important information regarding the merger of core and extras, and what this means to Legacy

2006-11-15 Thread Josep L. Guallar-Esteve
On Wednesday 15 November 2006 10:42, Bill Perrotta wrote: That is fine where can i download an iso of centos? If it is similar enough to do all labs for rhel3 rhce that is my only concern. CentOS-3 is a rebuild of the freely available of source code of RHEL-3 CentOS-4 is a rebuild of the freely

[SPAM] LOW * Re: Important information regarding the merger of core and extras, and what this means to Legacy

2006-11-15 Thread Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)
Bill Perrotta wrote: That is fine where can i download an iso of centos? If it is similar enough to do all labs for rhel3 rhce that is my only concern. Come on, Google is your friend. Go to http://www.centos.org/ and take it from there. CentOS 3 is exactly the same as RHEL 3, except for

Re: Important information regarding the merger of core and extras, and what this means to Legacy

2006-11-15 Thread Jeff Sheltren
On Nov 15, 2006, at 11:42 AM, Bill Perrotta wrote: That is fine where can i download an iso of centos? If it is similar enough to do all labs for rhel3 rhce that is my only concern. www.centos.org CentOS is a rebuild of RHEL, so it is pretty similar :) -Jeff -- fedora-legacy-list

Re: Important information regarding the merger of core and extras, and what this means to Legacy

2006-11-15 Thread Jesse Keating
On Wednesday 15 November 2006 10:41, Jeff Sheltren wrote: I like this idea, and I'd be happy to see official support for an FC release last ~13 months. Of course, this would end all interest I have in Fedora Legacy, which at this point is mostly to allow upgrading (well, re-installing in my

Re: Important information regarding the merger of core and extras, and what this means to Legacy

2006-11-15 Thread Matthew Miller
On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 10:10:13AM -0500, Jesse Keating wrote: So why don't you use CentOS which as a annual or every other year release? We use CentOS too. However, people a) want more cutting-edge and b) want Fedora. And if my group doesn't provide something that covers that demand, people

Re: Important information regarding the merger of core and extras, and what this means to Legacy

2006-11-15 Thread Matthew Miller
On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 11:17:19AM -0500, Jesse Keating wrote: How much of this is just speculation at this point, and how close is this to being actual policy? Depends on your feedback (: Don't get me wrong -- this is definitely a positive development. -- Matthew Miller [EMAIL

Re: Important information regarding the merger of core and extras, and what this means to Legacy

2006-11-15 Thread Jeff Sheltren
On Nov 15, 2006, at 12:17 PM, Jesse Keating wrote: On Wednesday 15 November 2006 10:41, Jeff Sheltren wrote: I like this idea, and I'd be happy to see official support for an FC release last ~13 months. Of course, this would end all interest I have in Fedora Legacy, which at this point is

Re: Important information regarding the merger of core and extras, and what this means to Legacy

2006-11-15 Thread Jeff Sheltren
On Nov 15, 2006, at 12:22 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: Extending the lifespan from ~9 to ~13 months is a huge help, but to cover the gaps, we really need more like 18-19. If Fedora decides to officially support releases for ~13 months, perhaps there is enough interest in extending them

Re: Important information regarding the merger of core and extras, and what this means to Legacy

2006-11-15 Thread Matthew Miller
On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 11:43:10AM -0500, Jesse Keating wrote: Well, based on history, it'll be slightly behind-the-newest at release date (RHEL stabilization + a month or so for CentOS) but generally current enough, but then by this spring we'll see a batch of computers with hardware that

Re: Important information regarding the merger of core and extras, and what this means to Legacy

2006-11-15 Thread Matthew Miller
On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 12:45:16PM -0400, Jeff Sheltren wrote: If Fedora decides to officially support releases for ~13 months, perhaps there is enough interest in extending them another 5-6 months to keep Legacy going? If my thinking is correct, that would leave Perhaps, yeah. legacy

Re: Important information regarding the merger of core and extras, and what this means to Legacy

2006-11-15 Thread Matthew Miller
On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 11:49:13AM -0500, Jesse Keating wrote: about to. I think there really needs to be significant interest in it, more than just Matt Miller, although he is a very interesting case. The majority Yeah, because frankly, I have a _lot_ more interest than time. It's, like, a

Re: Important information regarding the merger of core and extras, and what this means to Legacy

2006-11-15 Thread Jesse Keating
On Wednesday 15 November 2006 11:48, Matthew Miller wrote: Is RHEL5 going to go wholesale to new kernel versions with the quarterly updates, or is it actually going to backport all updated drivers to the older release? From what I gather out in the community (not looking at any internal

Re: Important information regarding the merger of core and extras, and what this means to Legacy

2006-11-15 Thread Eric Rostetter
Quoting Matthew Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 10:06:57PM -0600, Eric Rostetter wrote: First I would like to say to those who say Fedora Legacy has failed, that it _did_ work (i.e. didn't fail) for the most critical time period and the most critical OS version (RHL 7-9,

Re: Important information regarding the merger of core and extras, and what this means to Legacy

2006-11-15 Thread Matthew Miller
On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 11:58:02AM -0500, Jesse Keating wrote: Is RHEL5 going to go wholesale to new kernel versions with the quarterly updates, or is it actually going to backport all updated drivers to the older release? From what I gather out in the community (not looking at any internal

Re: Important information regarding the merger of core and extras, and what this means to Legacy

2006-11-15 Thread Matthew Miller
On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 11:15:51AM -0600, Eric Rostetter wrote: My problem has always been I work in University settings where updates only happen during breaks (Spring break, Summer break, or Winter break). On the Same here -- except I'm not sure I can rely on people to update during the

Re: Important information regarding the merger of core and extras, and what this means to Legacy

2006-11-15 Thread Eric Rostetter
Quoting Matthew Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 11:15:51AM -0600, Eric Rostetter wrote: My problem has always been I work in University settings where updates only happen during breaks (Spring break, Summer break, or Winter break). On the Same here -- except I'm not sure I

Re: Important information regarding the merger of core and extras, and what this means to Legacy

2006-11-15 Thread Eric Rostetter
Quoting Jesse Keating [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wednesday 15 November 2006 10:32, Gene Heskett wrote: Theres several reasons, the old kernel version being one of them. Firewire doesn't work that I know of, and I have a firewire movie camera. I missed what this is about, but if it is about the

Re: Important information regarding the merger of core and extras, and what this means to Legacy

2006-11-15 Thread Eric Rostetter
Quoting Matthew Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm not able to force anyone here to do anything. Therefore, I have to That's the first problem... You either need to be able to force them to do the right thing, or punish them for failure. If you can't do one or the other of those then you're

Re: Important information regarding the merger of core and extras, and what this means to Legacy

2006-11-15 Thread Matthew Miller
On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 02:00:47PM -0600, Eric Rostetter wrote: I'm not able to force anyone here to do anything. Therefore, I have to That's the first problem... You either need to be able to force them to do the right thing, or punish them for failure. If you can't do one or the other of

Re: Important information regarding the merger of core and extras, and what this means to Legacy

2006-11-15 Thread Jesse Keating
On Wednesday 15 November 2006 15:34, Matthew Miller wrote: Clearly I'm in no position to impose anything. However, it'd certainly be helpful to us if Legacy could contine to extend the lifespan beyond the new proposed 13 months. And I mention it in case I'm not alone. [*] * In fact, I'm

Re: Important information regarding the merger of core and extras, and what this means to Legacy

2006-11-15 Thread Eric Rostetter
Quoting Matthew Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED]: * In fact, I'm pretty certain I'm not, and that there are thousands of users running FC1, FC2, and FC3 and just waiting to become botnet members if they're not already. The difference is that my users have me to care about them. Well, I agree there

Re: Important information regarding the merger of core and extras, and what this means to Legacy

2006-11-15 Thread Matthew Miller
On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 03:43:43PM -0500, Jesse Keating wrote: But is there enough you to go around to do the updates? That's the real Speaking for me personally, no. :) question here. We can't stop people from being dumb and not upgrading their release when it goes dead. If we gave them

Re: Important information regarding the merger of core and extras, and what this means to Legacy

2006-11-15 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 15 November 2006 11:03, Jesse Keating wrote: On Wednesday 15 November 2006 10:32, Gene Heskett wrote: Theres several reasons, the old kernel version being one of them. Firewire doesn't work that I know of, and I have a firewire movie camera. And when CentOS5 comes out? I've no

Re: Important information regarding the merger of core and extras, and what this means to Legacy

2006-11-15 Thread Jesse Keating
On Wednesday 15 November 2006 16:33, Gene Heskett wrote: I've no idea when, or if firewire is back among the living.  It took till the last new kernel for FC5 before it worked well enough to be usable.   Where does that place centos5 then? RHEL5 kernel is largely based on the FC6 kernel. --

Re: Important information regarding the merger of core and extras, and what this means to Legacy

2006-11-15 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 15 November 2006 16:36, Jesse Keating wrote: On Wednesday 15 November 2006 16:33, Gene Heskett wrote: I've no idea when, or if firewire is back among the living.  It took till the last new kernel for FC5 before it worked well enough to be usable. Where does that place centos5 then?

Re: Important information regarding the merger of core and extras, and what this means to Legacy

2006-11-15 Thread Lemonbit
Matthew Miller wrote: I'm not able to force anyone here to do anything. Therefore, I have to encourage good practice entirely via carrots. This works best when we align with the academic year -- a release in the spring, current through the following summer to allow time for upgrades.

Re: Important information regarding the merger of core and extras, and what this means to Legacy

2006-11-14 Thread Eric Rostetter
Quoting Jesse Keating [EMAIL PROTECTED]: See my blog regarding the future of Legacy as a project. Please remember these are just proposals and not final solutions. A wiki page will follow soon. First I would like to say to those who say Fedora Legacy has failed, that it _did_ work (i.e.