Joshua Penix wrote:
Yes, Fedora Core 2 is in "legacy" status, but that simply means that the Fedora project itself is not producing updates. That's what the Fedora Legacy project (http://fedoralegacy.org/) is for, and they are now fully maintaining security updates for FC2 as well as FC1, RedHat 9 and RedHat 7.3.
well, not exactly 'fully' -- It is lightly QA'ed, releases late, and after much gnashing of teeth. RH's approach on Fedora clearly has been and is still advertised as a non-long-term, non-enterprise ready approach
The efforts to keep these FC ephemeral distributions on life support (rather than using a long-lived distribution from the start), seems to me to be a wasteful dilution of developer resources.
They're doing a great service for the RedHat/Fedora-using Linux community and should not be overlooked. Their work has kept a good number of my well-working RH9 boxes from being forced onto the upgrade treadmill.
but RHL9 != the FC series. The Red Hat 'A team' stabilization talent might pick and poke at FC (via RawHide), but their Enterprise product rules the roost a the end of the day.
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