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
Actually, a few months ago, and because RHEL had run beyond the 18 month release cycle that I was used to, I installed the 2.0 RPMS from the OO.o site onto my XDMCP server and things have worked out quite well. I can recommend this.
Not to criticize RedHat, BTW, as their official policy *is* 18-24 months. I simply assumed. And you know what they say about that. ;-)
Member since:2006-10-24
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.
While it's true that Red Hat did alienate some people, the primary reason why the Legacy project died is that very few users cared about it. While Fedora really is a great distribution and has a large active community, it is crafted to be most attractive to people who want bleeding edge free software. That target audience is very likely to upgrade to the latest release rather than depend on legacy support. Don't think anyone will shed a tear that the Legacy group recognized this and shut down.
Edited 2007-01-03 00:36
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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.