[NTLUG:Discuss] Red Hat 9.0 End of Life 04/30/2004

[Chris Cox]

Iostream at comcast.net wrote:
> Actually, at least for Fedora Core 1, up2date still exists,
> and will most likely continue to.  It has been reworked to
> use yum underneath though.  So if there are features in
> up2date you like, you can continue to use them, if you
> would prefer to use yum proper, that works too...
> 

I don't know.  Originally they stated that while there
might be an up2date-like tool, the life span of Fedora
"releases" (if there is such a thing) was somewhere
in the 3-4 month range... even if they continue to
support for twice that... it's not a terribly long
time for updates.  The whole update model makes
better sense on the RHEL side where the product is
supported for longer periods of time.

The answer for the consumer (fedora) end is simply
to upgrade to the next "core" release.  If they
develop an up2date-like tool for fedora, it won't
really be for fedora-use but for the commercial
RHEL based deliveries (primarily for that anyway).

We already see OpenOffice as a group of developers
with handcuffs to Sun... then Sun makes money from
Star Office using that work at the base.  I wonder
how motiviated developers are when they know the
end result is the commerical deliverable??

RH has publically stated that their goal is to
follow after the Star Office model.. Fedora is
the "community" working toward making a good product
that RH than can then (with much guidance on the
fedora development direction) use for their
commercial deliverable.

I wonder what would happen if the fedora "community"
strays too far from their RH "guidance"??