krishnakant Mane wrote:
hello all, just one question about fedora and this is really very serious because I have got contracts from 3 other big organisations for converting their enterprise to gnu/linux. I found that fedora is having more hardware support than any distro for the latest hardware like ggc mother boards etc. now my question is that what kind of reliability can we expect with fedora and what is the level of support we get? for example ubuntu has a "LTS" meaning Long Time Support policy. I think fedora obviously can't provide this because this is purely community driven project. I am not so sure about mandriva whether is is purely community driven or an organisation is supporting it. any ways the point is that can fedora have that kind of support because new versions come every now and then so can we look for support on fedora? for example if I am using fedora core 6 how long can I get updates and new packages for the same? thanking all.
probably 13 months from release (was previously 10 months).. see http://fedoranews.org/wiki/Fedora_Weekly_News_Issue_73#Red_Hat.27s_Fedora_to...
Overall it is stable enough for the desktop (with some occasional irritations like the latest thunderbird/gtk/glibc drag and drop bug), though i'd prefer centos/rhel for servers.
- dhawal