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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Member since:2005-07-24
"""Couldn't agree more, the Linux landscape changes so quickly that legacy quickly means obsolete."""
I do not find this to be true. I have about 50 users on CentOS4 desktops. CentOS4, being essentially RHEL4, is also essentially FC3, or about 24 months "behind".
It is quite serviceable. I am looking forward to CentOS 5 for a *few* things. But people really do over-hype the rate of progress in Open Source.
Progress in some areas is impressive, yes. But to hear some people talk, you'd think it was "The Roadrunner". (Beep! Beep!) ;-)
Member since:2006-03-15
I second your sentiment. I would still be very happy with RHEL 4 as a desktop if it came with OpenOffice 2.x. The interesting thing is that the only reason for this "requirement" is more due to the fact that OpenOffice 1.x was pretty lacking than anything else.
Anyways, I have voiced my opinion on this forum many times about how much Fedora as a distribution really is lacking and how RedHat needs to change directions on Fedora so I won't voice it now. The article itself is evidence of what is happening to Fedora.
Also, the lack of interest in helping out the Legacy Project is not due to some general lack of activity within the open source community. On the contrary, I think the lack of interest is specific to Fedora. RedHat did a very good job in chasing away the majority of opensource advocates from the Fedora distribution. Sure there are many Fedora users (newbies and corporations), but those are the wrong type of people.
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2005-07-06
Couldn't agree more, the Linux landscape changes so quickly that legacy quickly means obsolete.
Servers are a different animal, long term, slow releases are desired there, and a legacy support network there is appreciated.
but desktop? who's running an outdated desktop except someone with older hardware. (and if that's you, come on! there are distro's built for you!)