Regular releases is important for keeping stuff up to date and
also for getting the latest technology into the hands of folks with
modems rather than broadband
I'd like to propose the following for those of us who want to worry
about maintenance and upgrades but are not in a position to afford RHEL
(you can read that as *.edu :)
What if the following were done:
(FedoraCoreLinux = FCL)
FCL1 is released - it is considered current release
FCL2 is released - FCL1 becomes stable FCL2 becomes current
FCL3 is released - FCL1 becomes old FCL2 becomes stable FCL3 becomes
current
FCL4 is released - FCL1 is deprecated FCL2 is old FCL3 is stable FCL4 is
current
Wash, Rinse, Repeat.
I guess what I'm getting at is that if there is a way to focus on any 3
releases and then a lot of us who are not in a position to afford RHEL
or who do not want to buy RHEL can have a set of structures to help
ourselves.
I know red hat can't continue to devote many many developer hours on
errata of un-paid releases, however, I'm hoping that the fedora system
will mean that nothing precludes or will try to resist someone from
doing this.
-sv