On Dec 23, 2007 7:46 PM, William Cattey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am concerned that Fedora and Red Hat are losing mindshare in a way
that a few years down the line will kill the seed corn. There's no
nice middle ground between Red Hat Enterprise with well established
functionality, and
On Dec 24, 2007 2:49 PM, Jeff Spaleta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Point to specific functionality... open functionality that Fedora
doesn't have that we should.
I think that what is being referred to here is the Ubuntu 'LTS'
releases, that get long term support updates. I 'm kind of on the
fence
Jon Stanley wrote:
On Dec 24, 2007 2:49 PM, Jeff Spaleta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Point to specific functionality... open functionality that Fedora
doesn't have that we should.
I think that what is being referred to here is the Ubuntu 'LTS'
releases, that get long term support updates. I 'm
On Mon, Dec 24, 2007 at 04:02:39PM -0600, Jon Stanley wrote:
and it's derivatives, a la CentOS. Someone looking for a free as in
{speech,beer} distribution with long term support I tend to point
towards CentOS, but maybe there is middle ground between that and the
current Fedora that we don't
Jon Stanley wrote:
The Fedora Project moves in with EPEL, Extra Packages for Enterprise
Linux, perfectly suitable for a CentOS machine and with the same release
and 'support' cycle.
Not entirely sure what you mean here. I think what was being called
for was a release whereby it's supported
It turns out that 1000 seats at MIT are switching to Ubuntu from
Enterprise.
They will not be using LTS, because they expect to need more recent
hardware drivers.
They are switching to Ubuntu instead of Fedora even though they
expect there will be an annual OS update of Ubuntu required,
On Dec 24, 2007 2:51 PM, William Cattey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
apt
package management system makes a lot of the work to switch from our
present tightly integrated OS + alternate versions of packages +
additional packages to alternate versions and additional packages
layered on a
