R P Herrold wrote:
Joshua Penix wrote:
Yes, Fedora Core 2 is in "legacy" status, but that simply means that
the Fedora project itself is not producing updates. That's what the
Fedora Legacy project (http://fedoralegacy.org/) is for, and they
are now fully maintaining security updates for FC2 as well as FC1,
RedHat 9 and RedHat 7.3.
well, not exactly 'fully' -- It is lightly QA'ed, releases late, and
after much gnashing of teeth. RH's approach on Fedora clearly has
been and is still advertised as a non-long-term, non-enterprise ready
approach
The efforts to keep these FC ephemeral distributions on life support
(rather than using a long-lived distribution from the start), seems to
me to be a wasteful dilution of developer resources.
They're doing a great service for the RedHat/Fedora-using Linux
community and should not be overlooked. Their work has kept a good
number of my well-working RH9 boxes from being forced onto the
upgrade treadmill.
but RHL9 != the FC series. The Red Hat 'A team' stabilization talent
might pick and poke at FC (via RawHide), but their Enterprise product
rules the roost a the end of the day.
Which distribution would be a better selection? That is, which
distribution has a better focus on its "free" version?
I know Debian has the reputation for traditionally being the most stable
and bug-free upon release, but they (IIRC) don't focus much on getting
the latest stuff bundled in.
Do we have a wiki on the different distributions regarding their
individual pros and cons?
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