Re: Fedora Lifespan versus RHEL/Centos Lifespan [tlug]

[Scott Robbins <scottro@example.com>]

On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 11:24:38AM +0900, Wayne wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 22:12 -0400, jep200404 wrote:
> > 《Wayne》 wrote:
> > 
> > > ... FC5 reached EOL in June and FC6 will be shelved not long 
> > > after F8 is released. Schedule for that is November 8th.
> > 
> > Hence RHEL and Centos with their long lives. 
> > 
> > Jim
> 
> Some of us like living on the edge :-) I'm chomping at the bit to get my
> greedy paws on Gnome 2.20. Unfortunately, though stable, those two
> distros are still based on Gnome 2.16 if memory serves. As a home user/
> hobbyist I don't need the stability of RedHat.

Heh, judging from our respective posts on Fedoraforums, I think I went
to Fedora 8 test before you did.  Nyah nyah.  :) 

(I run it on my workstation as well, with my boss' approval.  It's one
way to keep track of things that might hit us later.   For example,
smbfs seems as if it's becoming deprecated--when mounting a share with
smbfs after upgrading, I got an error that it was an unknown type.  This
is fine as we use cifs in production anyway, but it's the sort of thing
that is handy to know. (Of course, it might have simply been a test 1
bug, but I didn't bother to research it.  I just throw it out as an
example.)

He (my boss) was less interested, however, in the fact that one of the
upgrades broke sound.  I pointed out that as it was a permissions issue,
it could be relevant in the future with other permissions.  (This was,
errm, in answer to the question of, "What are you working on?"
Fortunately, he was amused.)

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