Patrick Bartek wrote:
--- On Wed, 11/10/10, Gordon Messmer<yinyang(a)eburg.com>
wrote:
> On 11/09/2010 07:35 PM, Patrick
> Bartek wrote:
>> I've gotten to the point where I'm tiring of Fedora's
> fast release
>> cycle. I need a longer life OS. I build my
> personal systems to last
>> about 5 to 7 years with periodic hardware upgrades as
> needed. I'd
>> like the OS last that long, too.
> ...
>> 5 along with CentOS and
>> Scientific Linux versions are too old being seemingly
> based on FC6.
>
> If you want your OS to last 5 to 7 years, your package
> version are going
> to be old. To paraphrase Babbage, I am not able
> rightly to apprehend
> the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such
> requirements.
That's okay as long as the OS is "current" when it is installed and will be
supported for those 5 years or so. (I'm not a cutting edge type of person. It
matters little to me whether something is new or old as long as it works and satifies my
requirements.) I wouldn't install, say, CentOS 5, on a new or old system today and
not expect problems, either today or later. That's why I'm waiting for CentOS 6
or Debian 6, etc. to be released before doing anything to my current 4 year old
system--Fedora 12 64-bit.
I will probably be using CentOS-5.5 or later until CentOS-7 comes out. RHEL6 is
dropping xen, and the little utility boxes I seem to build for firewall or
similar don't have HVM and can't support KVM. Hopefully xen will be back in
mainline soon, and people will have a choice how they want to run things.
--
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