On 6/21/07, Chris Negus cnegus@rucls.net wrote:
On Thu, 2007-06-21 at 13:46 +0000, Bryan J Smith wrote:
Fedora Core is not more "Beta" than Red Hat Linux was before it. And
until Red
Hat clarifies that - Enterprise Linux marketing be damned - those who
want to
demonize it that way will continue, with nothing professionals like
myself can
point to - other than our own publications or blog articles on the
matter.
I agree. Fedora is a weird case where reality is better than perception.
Has anyone on the Fedora project considered making one stable Fedora release every three or four releases? You could promote the release as having:
- Stable desktop and servers
- Three years of security updates
- Branding program with hardware manufacturers
I think you could bring back a lot of the independent consultants who went to CentOS or elsewhere after the transition from Red Hat Linux. It could also quiet people who say cutting-edge = never-better-than-beta.
-- Chris Negus
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Wouldn't that be like using Fedora 4 with years of updates? Fedora 5 support is ending soon, which means that software updates are no longer being provided. Using a 3 year old Fedora + patches wouldn't make it secure, it would make it old.
Just my 2 cents.