--- On Wed, 11/10/10, Gordon Messmer <yiny...@eburg.com> wrote: > On 11/09/2010 07:35 PM, Patrick > Bartek wrote: > > I've gotten to the point where I'm tiring of Fedora's > fast release > > cycle. I need a longer life OS. I build my > personal systems to last > > about 5 to 7 years with periodic hardware upgrades as > needed. I'd > > like the OS last that long, too. > ... > > 5 along with CentOS and > > Scientific Linux versions are too old being seemingly > based on FC6. > > If you want your OS to last 5 to 7 years, your package > version are going > to be old. To paraphrase Babbage, I am not able > rightly to apprehend > the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such > requirements.
That's okay as long as the OS is "current" when it is installed and will be supported for those 5 years or so. (I'm not a cutting edge type of person. It matters little to me whether something is new or old as long as it works and satifies my requirements.) I wouldn't install, say, CentOS 5, on a new or old system today and not expect problems, either today or later. That's why I'm waiting for CentOS 6 or Debian 6, etc. to be released before doing anything to my current 4 year old system--Fedora 12 64-bit. However, nothing has been written in stone. B -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
