Re: Fedora Core == Linux?

[Gary <gary-list-luci@mygirlfriday.info>]

Hi Bryan,

--On Saturday, December 20, 2003 03:31:17 PM -0600 "Bryan J. Smith" 
<b.j.smith@ieee.org> wrote:

>> Hi Steve,
>> Well, Progeny is now picking up support for RH releases 7.2 - 9, but not
>> for anything with Fedora.

> <anal>Actually, Progeny is not supporting _any_ RHL _yet_.</anal>

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As I said, they are now picking up support. EXACT dates below as you 
indicated. A FULL 11 days away... give me a break.

> RHL 7.2, 7.3 and 8[.0] support will begin 1/1/2004.
> RHL 9 begins 5/1/2004.

> Fedora has not been announced because Red Hat is still supporting FC 1.
> FC 2 is planned for 4/2004, so expect FC 1 support to drop by summer's
> end.  Progeny cannot begin to plan for a release who's deprecation has
> not been determined yet.

Who said Progeny is going to support Fedora at all?

Are you going to bet your business on it?

> Fedora Legacy is _also_ supporting RHL 7.2, 7.3, 8[.0] after the year's
> end, and RHL 9 after 4/30/2004.  It will be interesting to see how long.

Agreed here.

>> If it is another group, then it would be worthwhile to stay with
>> Fedora.  It is this 6-8 month life cycle that is bothering me.  I
>> spend too much time setting up servers, only to have to mess with
>> them again during another Version.

> Then you might want to consider RHEL ES 3, as it will be supported for a
> guaranteed 5 years.  Right now you can get 2 years for $349/system.

Not for me personally, I would never pay that for a Linux OS. Not when 
there is SUSE or Libranet around. SUSE offers everything for about $79 and 
2 full years of support.  If a client pays for it, fine, no problem.

> There is no guarantee Progeny will support RHL 7.2-9 for that long any
> more than Progeny will support FC 1, etc...

On Progeny's survey, they asked how long would you keep your current 
release, and this ranged, IIRC, from 6 months, to a yr, or more than a yr, 
something like that. I did not see any mention of Progeny support for FC1, 
although I have not researched it thoroughly.

-- 
Gary

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