On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 2:55 PM Stephen John Smoogen <smooge(a)gmail.com> wrote:
From what I have talked with in the past.. 3 years is their bare
minimum and 7 is their what we really want. It usually takes the
vendor about 3-6 months of work to make sure the OS works on their
hardware without major problems and then they want people to buy
support contracts for 3-5 years where the number of problems needed in
year 3-5 are none. [This means that they want to have Fedora N for 3-6
months before their laptops ship with it. So you ship them a frozen
preload before you release to public. They also want any shipped to
'last' for the warranty cycle because trying to deal with update
questions when N eol's in the middle costs them a lot.]
If 7 years is what manufacturers really want, then it sounds like
CentOS is much better positioned to be get shipped on laptops than
Fedora. Instead of working on a new "Fedora LTS" for this usage case,
would time be better spent improving EPEL and CentOS for the
desktop/laptop use case? I'd always thought of CentOS/RHEL as "Fedora
LTS" anyway, to be honest.
Ben Rosser