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

[Chris Cox]

Iostream at comcast.net wrote:
> 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.

This is somewhat contrary to what RH has said up to this point.
My understanding is that the prime reason for Fedora is to
develop technologies that can be leveraged in RHEL.

And that the support path on Fedora is intentionally short in
order to drive the business market to RHEL.  Obviously 6 months
still qualifies as very short.. but we were initially told
something long the lines of 3-4 months.  Of course this
whole deal is sorta half-baked (from a business plan perspective).
So implementation could be radically different from the initial
expectations/press.

Do you have some inside info on RH's expectations for this?