--- Alan Coopersmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Marc Hamilton wrote:
> > You don't see too many ISVs  saying they support
> Fedora (in comparison to RHEL).
> 
> You don't see to many ISV's saying they support any
> OS with a
> 6-month release cycle and 1-2 year lifetime when
> they can choose
> a variant of that OS with a 2-3 year release cycle
> and 5-6 year
> lifetime instead.

I think we need to colour this properly. If we could
make things somewhat like the Mac OS X environment
with stable libraries (kernel-wise i believe Open
Solaris should not have a problem...) then there
should not be a need to make an absolute
differentiation of releases. Major releases in the
Linux world are due to ABI breakage or GNOME
breakage...things like these. I do not see why the
kernel getting a new release that does not affect
drivers or libraries and their apps should warrant an
entire new release. The debian cycle looks rather good
actually (their slowness is something else)

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