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

[Iostream@comcast.net]

Fedora Core should have updates for quite some time, I would expect 6 months between Core releases, and another 6 months of errata updates before it is dropped from Fedora proper, but the Fedora Legacy project may very well extend support for a long time beyond that.  I would expect many though to simply update to the next core release when it is available.
I do not expect the Fedora project to stray too far from Red Hat's expectations, as it is being closely governed by Red Hat themselves.  Outside of Core however might be a different issue.
For availability, I Fedora Core 1 should have isos available this week.

Justin

who is doing the AMD64 port of Fedora Core right now.

> 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"??
> 
> 
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