Star Fedora Core 5 End of Life
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 3rd May 2007 18:29 UTC, submitted by anonymous
Fedora Core "Several months ago, the Fedora Board (in consultation with Red Hat Engineering) decided to increase the length of time that Fedora releases are supported, in terms of updates. This decision was retroactively applied to Fedora Core 5, allowing it to remain a fully maintained release for several months longer than it would have under the old policy. Fedora Core 5 will reach its end of life for updates on Friday June 29th, 2007."
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RE: Support
by elsewhere on Thu 3rd May 2007 19:08 UTC in reply to "Support"
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2005-07-13

I clearly understand that maintening old versions is hard and boring but in the 'nix world, there's no hurry to upgrade. After all, most software we use were written 20 years ago so why do we need to upgrade? New version of Gnome/KDE? Not really useful when all you need is xterm/emacs/vim/whatever ;-)


In fairness, it's a case of using the right tool for the right job. Fedora never claimed to be a platform optimized for long term, stable deployments; I remember back when I jumped back into linux with FC3, it wasn't even recommended for any sort of production use, it's bleeding edge nature was what attracted me to it as a re-entry point.

If all you need is xterm/emacs/vim/whatever and value stability, then really, Fedora isn't the ideal distro. Debian stable is ideally suited to that sort of situation, or even CentOS if you want to stay in the RH fold.

It's also a question of perceived need; the Fedora legacy project (I believe that was the name) was intended to provide longer term support for older releases, but simply failed to generate enough interest. I just don't think that's Fedora's target market.

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