Hi, Glad that FC6 is out today for download/playing.
But FC5 and FC6 are released too closely -- only three months apart. while FC4 had released over one year before FC5 appeared. Consequently, a lot of people and small organizations, as far as I know, have installed bunches of "free" FC4 boxes instead of FC5. Thereafter, they will directly go to FC6 instead of FC4->FC5->FC6, taking into the consideration of that each upgrade from one release to another one is not a tedious work. Based on the above fact, one idea will flow out naturally: based on the limited resourses of fedora legacy groups, and facing losing users because limited legacy support is flatted to each FC legacy release. Is it possible to support only some subset of releases? We can take the following strategy: 1, for each odd-numbered release, take it as a alpha version release, and don't support it with limited fedora legacy resources. So FC5, FC7, FC9 will not go into fedora legacy. and they will be in official(redhat) support status in no more than half year, or even a quarter. 2, for each even-numbered release, take it as a post-beta version release. these version will stay in official support for more than one year like FC4, then after its ending of official support, the release will go to fedora legacy for another one and half years or even longer based on resources. 3, for the support even-numbered releases, both i386/x86_64 arches are supported. because nowadays all new machines are amd64 or Intel EM64T, while original i386 is still in use. This way we can bring FC releases back into the free RH years since RH6.0 to RH9, helpful for FC, RH and users. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- fedora-legacy-list mailing list fedora-legacy-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legacy-list
