[lug] Old copies of Fedora?

[David L. Willson]

> > Fedora has never offered and therefore never failed to provide long
> term
> > support.
> 
> I guess we just have different definitions of "long term."  FC9 was
> released May 13, 2008.  The current version of Fedora is 13.  That
> means that four *MAJOR* revisions happened in two short years.  I
[...]
> Anyway, enough ranting.  I'm not a fan of Ubuntu, but at least the
> auto update mechanisms still work a year after you install it.

"Long term", same definition, but there is no Fedora LTS. Never has been.

There are no major/minor releases with Fedora, only releases. It's an edge distro.

Fedora is a fast-release/developer/bleeding-edge distro. Support window is 18 months. Want longer? Use RHEL or CentOS.

Ubuntu interim releases are similarly supported. Want longer? Use only Ubuntu LTS releases (6.06, 8.04, 10.04, etc).

David L. Willson
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