Greetings,
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 4:12 PM, Priyanka Sarkar <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear All, > > We thought of coming up a good story on the distro release time span. > Our question is 'With many distros going for a six-monthly release > cycle, do you think the release cycles of distros are too short? (And > users don't have to upgrade on a frequent basis?) ' > > What do you think on this? Would really appreciate if you share your > views elaborately. I would go for RHEL/CentOS (and any LTS distro with commercial support in the offing) with 10 years lifetime. It's a no brainer. I do understand newer hardware always not always being supported. But then the advantages are: 1. Commercial enterprises would like stable, rock-solid "bread and butter platform to run their business. 2. The Level 1 and Level 2 sysadmins feels more at comfort with that cycle. 6 months is too short a time for gaining mastery over any technology. Familiarity is maybe. They often have to attend to heterogenous environment. 3. even at personal level, such frequent update distributions, when one gets working it is preferred to have a stable work environment instead of marching an upgrade threadmill. 4. AFAIK, Fedora is mulling about LTS version. -- Regards, Rajagopal _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc ILUGC Mailing List Guidelines: http://ilugc.in/mailinglist-guidelines
