On 11/01/2013 05:49 PM, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
* Fedora moves too quickly!
I don't care, if the transition from old to new
/critical/ system features (e.g. dracut, systemd, dnf, etc...)
are well documented.
* Fedora has too short of a lifecycle!
That's the main problem. See what the neighbors are
doing:
Dist Lifetime
=========== ===========
Arch rolling
Gentoo rolling
Ubuntu 9 months
*Fedora 13 months
Mageia 18 months
openSUSE 18 months
openSUSE_EG 3 years
Debian 3 years
Ubuntu_LTS 5 years
Slackware 5 years (at least)
RHEL_clones 10 years
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mageia#Version_history
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSUSE#Version_history
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian#Timeline
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_%28operating_system%29#Releases
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slackware#Support_term
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CentOS#End-of-support_schedule