On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 13:36 -0600, Kenneth Burgener wrote: > I thought Fedora Core updates were done by the community, not by Redhat. > Is the community no longer going to provide yum updates for FC5?
The Fedora community has grown very strong, but a large number of core
responsibilities are handled by paid Red Hat employees. Red Hat made the
decision to provide support for only the current and previous release of
Fedora. A new release is happening next week, and FC5 will be
unsupported shortly after. There was a project called Fedora Legacy that
promised to provide longer term community based support for free. It
hasn't done a very good job so far. Even if the Fedora community grows
as strong as Debian, I doubt it will ever support more than the current
and previous releases because Fedora moves so fast and supporting more
would be an unreasonable drain on community resources.
If you want long term support, don't use Fedora.
> Can RHEL5 be downloaded free? Can you do yum updates free? Or does the
> whole RHEL5 world revolve around a required subscription?
If you have connections, there are many ways to get free RHEL5 CDs, but
it's probably not worth it because support and software updates are not
free.
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