[AktiviX-discuss] Distros and such...

[jeff]

Alan Dawson wrote:
> Quoting jeff <moe at blagblagblag.org>:
> 
> 
> 
>>... BLAG lags behind Fedora and waits for others to fix the various 
>>piles of packages--then we snag 'em ;)
>>
> 
> 
> My understanding is that Fedora is a relatively fast moving target, (which Red
> Hat take a snapshot of every now and again, stabilise and turn into RHEL ?). 
> 
> Fedora seems to have a release schedule of every 6 month ( which is in line with
> other distributions like SuSE ), but support security patches and bug fixes for
> deprecated fedora releases is only for 2-3 months[1].  Whilst say for SuSE, you
> have a release every 6 months, and official support for patches for 2 years.
> 
> For a Debian stable system, you should get patches for ever!  Though of course
> it will move from the Sarge to the Etch release one day, but you should be able
> to do an online upgrade ( no need to reinstall or boot from a distribution CD
> ).
> 
> So my question is:-
> How do you deal with security fixes and patches for BLAG ?  Especially if people
> are running Blag on a server.

Quick answer: fedora-legacy. It provides support for releases after main 
fedora has been done with it. They've been lacking a bit, but do put out 
new PHPs, kernels, apaches, etc.

-Jeff