> From: "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" <johan...@gmail.com> > > On 11/05/2012 05:28 PM, Przemek Klosowski wrote: > > On 11/02/2012 07:04 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > > > >> Sure, like I said in another mail, we've got better at that than before. > >> But as I also said in the same mail, you still have to do a version > >> upgrade every twelve months. That alone is ridiculous for a 'stable' > >> operating system. > >> > > > > This is an important point---it makes it difficult to deploy Fedora > > for other people. When the end-of-support comes, it usually means > > having to reinstall, because upgrade can take unbounded time, if > > problems pop up. Additionally, in my experience, a reinstall often > > results in a better configuration, free of grandfathered suboptimal > > settings. > > > > I keep thinking about a scheme to roll over an EOL Fedora into a > > closest possible CENTOS. It's not trivial because I can't just look > > for the CENTOS that matches the original Fedora release, because of > > the subsequent updates. It would have to look at the as-is system and > > try to figure out the best matching CENTOS release. I am thinking > > about a sum-of-squared-differences-like distance metric: calculate sum
> > over all packages of (installed_version - CENTOS_X_version)^2, for > > several CENTOS_X versions, and chose the one giving the smallest > > value. Of course some packages (glibc, kernel) would have a higher > > weight, but that could be incorporated (\sum_i((v1_i-v2_i)^2/wght_i)). > > Well I personally would rather have centos and other rhel clones unite > to support a lts release of Fedora instead since it does not take more > then a missing sysadmin or rhel business decision to more or less render > those community incapacitated.... +1 This is exactly why I've never adopted one of them. Like the concept, but fear such situations. I'd love to have a LTS for my servers and have something like a rolling Fedora release for *my* workstations. Other workstations that I help support, perhaps something in between. -- John Florian
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