Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 2nd Jan 2007 21:58 UTC
Volunteers are calling it quits on a project called Fedora Legacy to provide long-term support for Red Hat's hobbyist-oriented Fedora version of Linux. "The Fedora Legacy project is in the process of shutting down," said project organizers Jesse Keating and David Eisenstein in a Fedora Legacy mailing list posting Friday. The organizers didn't provide a specific reason for the decision, but a lack of contributions from outside programmers contributed, Keating said in a separate mailing list posting.
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Surprsingly enough, I noticed the other day that Fedora's site might be hosted on CentOS.
http://emphaticallystatic.org/earlier/a-technical-interlude/
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Unfortunately there is little benefit in supporting older Fedora systems. So too much effort (back porting and testing lots of packages) and too little gain (small user base with little contributions) cannot be sustained for long.
Actually this is not a big loss for users. Desktop users could perform a simple "yum upgrade" get to the latest version (yes it works), and for servers you shouldn't have used Fedora in the first place*.
* (there are better alternatives like CentOS, SuSE or Debian).