User Ernie wrote: > Originally BlueQuartz was written for Fedora, I think it was I that > suggested to the list to port it to CentOS many years ago, now we are locked > in. > How hard would it be to go back to Fedora as a base for BlueOnyx if it hits > the fan > in the CentOS camp?
Could it be done? Yeah. Should it be done? Not on your life. Fedora is a HORRIBLE platform for BlueOnyx. Fedora is a fine tool for development and arguably for desktop use. I would never suggest any server be run on Fedora (although I'm well aware plenty of folks do). Fedora is a work in progress. It's not intended to be supported for an extended period of time. Generally speaking, a new Fedora is released about every 6 months and has a support lifecycle of about 13 months. For instance, Fedora 14 is the current release. Around October 31 of this year (2011), Fedora 16 is slated for release and 1 month after that Fedora 14 will no longer be supported and maintained. It will be EOL. As with many projects, there's some dissension in the ranks with the CentOS team right now. This may also pass, or it may be fatal. Worst case, we'll see CentOS fork into another project because there will ALWAYS be a call for a free Enterprise Linux (RHEL clone). Years ago we took our production systems to Tao Linux which was one of the RHEL clones of the day. When that project fell apart we had a bunch of boxes that were going to be orphaned. No more maintenance, no more YUM updates... and then it was absorbed into CentOS. We added the CentOS repos, YUM'd the boxes, and they rebooted as CentOS. I have a feeling that's the way it will go if CentOS implodes. But if all else fails... put down the Fedora ISO and back away slowly. -- Chris Gebhardt VIRTBIZ Internet Services Access, Web Hosting, Colocation, Dedicated www.virtbiz.com | toll-free (866) 4 VIRTBIZ _______________________________________________ Blueonyx mailing list [email protected] http://www.blueonyx.it/mailman/listinfo/blueonyx
