Fedora Legacy closes its doors
p2pnet.net News:- The Fedora Legacy, started to provide post-EOL support for Red Hat’s “hobbyist-oriented” Linux version, is shutting down.
Its goal was to work with the Linux community, “to provide security and critical bug fix errata packages for select Red Hat Linux and Fedora Core releases after they reach their EOL, thus extending their effective lifetime in environments where frequent upgrades are not possible or desirable,” it says in the site.
However, it’s reached the end of the line.
“Nobody has responded to our calls for help,” CNET News has Jesse Keating, one of the project organizers, saying. “There are a good number of consumers, people who will happily consume until the project ends; however they are not willing to actually do any of the work necessary to keep the project alive.”
Since Fedora Legacy started, CentOS, “an attempt to reproduce RHEL based on the real project’s underlying source code,” has begun, says CNET. It’s free as well and more recently, Oracle launched a similar RHEL cloning effort.
“Also emerging on the scene in the years since Fedora is Ubuntu, supported by start-up Canonical. Deliberately taking a different approach than the Fedora-RHEL split, the free version of Ubuntu is the same one for which Canonical sells support.”
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Also See:
CNET News – Long-term Fedora Linux support ending, January 2, 2007
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