On 6/12/07, Donald E Tripp <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> This is a question I hear fairly frequently on both SL and CentOS forums. Here's my two cents.
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> RHEL/SL/CenOS is a world class stable operating system. It got that way by being refined over time, and it stays that way from a continuos flow of quality bug fixes and updates. With a release cycle of 36 months, and life-time of 5-6 years, RHEL/SL/CentOS is the desired platform for server operating systems and mission critical systems.
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> Fedora is like the baby brother; the one who wants all the new toys. Fedora's release cycle of 18 months puts it way ahead of any of the RHEL clones. Fedora has an estimated life-time of 3 years. I just recently read that they were dropping support for FC1 and FC2 because of lack of use / limited space. so FC3 is probably close behind.
>

Pretty much but the Fedora release cycle is 6-9 months and the life
cycle is estimated to be 18 to 24 months versus 3 years. FC3 and FC4
have been end-of-lifed for a while. FC5 will be end of lifed soon. The
future plans of Fedora will be to release regularly in October and
April. This means that FC8 will be only a 4 month development cycle
with a 1 month beta cycle. FC9 will be a 5 month development cycle
with a 1 month beta cycle. Support will become 18 months I think. The
goal of this is to make sure that they are near bleeding edge and not
having to suck up too many resources doing bug fixes for releases that
the developers can't remember anymore.




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