Strong wrote:
Excuse me, may i missed something...
So, if I have a web-server, with a time, say 5 years from now, i will
not be able to update my FC4 through the general services, like yum,
etc?
Fedora Core releases will follow the so-called "1-2-3 and
out" policy
in co-operation with Red Hat/Fedora Core. This means that when the Red
Hat/Fedora Core group no longer supports a Fedora Core release, Fedora
Legacy will pick it up and maintain it for two additional Fedora Core
release cycles. Based on the current schedule for Fedora Core
releases, this should provide each release with approximately 1.5
years of total update support.
In short, Fedora Legacy will provide updates for any Fedora Core
releases up to two versions back from the current release.
Q: Is the length of support above fixed in stone?
A: No. We may drop a release earlier if there is not sufficient
community support to continue supporting it. Also, the above time
periods should be considered to be a "at least this long" type of
definition. If there is significant interest and support in a release,
and enough reason to do so, we may extend the life spam of a release
longer than the above defined periods.
(The "life spam" is in the original: I hope that's not a Freudian slip!)
If you want further support, you are expected to upgrade to a newer
Fedora, or switch to Red Hat Enterprise Linux or Centos. They don't
provide so many releases, so they can release updates for "at least 5
years" (
http://fedora.redhat.com/about/rhel.html) / "7 years"
(
http://www.redhat.com/software/rhel/faq/#20).
Hope this helps,
James.
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