Fedora Legacy Shutting Down

An anonymous reader writes to pass on the news that the Fedora Legacy project is going away. The project has been providing security updates and critical bugfixes to end-of-life Red Hat and Fedora Core releases. From the article: "In case any of you are not aware, the Fedora Legacy project is in the process of shutting down. The current model for supporting maintenance distributions is being re-examined. In the meantime, we are unable to extend support to older Fedora Core releases as we had planned. As of now, Fedora Core 4 and earlier distributions are no longer being maintained. Discussions... on the #Fedora-Legacy channel have brought to light the fact that certain Fedora Legacy properties (servers) may be going away soon, such as the repository at http://download.fedoralegacy.org and the build server."

Re:RH pushing EL

[Wdomburg]

Erm, Ubuntu supports for 18 months for most of their releases. Only one release has been designated "long term support" and that's only 5 years for servers; the desktop version is only supported for 3 years.

And, on top of that, Fedora Legacy is not Red Hat, is not affiliated with Red Hat, and is not sponsered by Red Hat. As such their actions don't reflect on Red Hat.

If you need longterm support, use CentOS

[Nighttime]

From Internet News [internetnews.com]

Typically a Fedora Core release comes out every six or seven months. Red Hat's flagship offering, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), by contrast, comes out every 18 to 24 months. Under the new lifecycle plan a Fedora Core release would have 13 months of support.

"Anything beyond this really seems to be corner cases that would really be better served by something like CentOS for free, RHEL for rock solid support, or Oracle for crackmonkies," Keating wrote. "What does this mean for the "Legacy" project? We feel that the resources currently and in the past that have contributed to the Legacy project could be better used within the Fedora project space."

Re:Justification?

[LnxAddct]

This has absolutely nothing to do with Red Hat... Fedora Legacy is not controlled or funded or anything by Red Hat. It is community driven, which is what Fedora is all about, and apparently the interest just wasn't there in Fedora Legacy. Hell, at the bottom of http://fedoralegacy.org/ [fedoralegacy.org] it even says "The Fedora Legacy Project is not a part of Red Hat, Inc."
Regards,
Steve

Re:RH pushing EL

[Wdomburg]

Fedora != Fedora Legacy

Re:Justification?

[Anonymous Coward]

Old RedHat's didn't disappear. They moved them off of the main FTP server and added a README file to give you the new address. Everything back to the 1.0 release is at ftp://archive.download.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux / [redhat.com].

Re:Just one more thing to nudge me back to Solaris

[that this is not und]

If you're happy to limit your apps as a consequence then obviously your call too.

The NetBSD Packages Collection (Pkgsrc) has been ported to Solaris, along with a number of other non-NetBSD environments. If you can't find what you need in pkgsrc you've got pretty exotic software needs. Read: most, if not all, of the key 'Open Source' packages can be found in the pkgsrc tree.

Obviously, this doesn't all roll out automatically off the .ISO image from Sun. If you can't do a little work in setting up your system, you can always just run windoze.

Re:CentOS

[DA-MAN]

I think you misunderstood the statement. The parent post was saying that, a few years ago, he bought a boxed copy of RH9, only to find RH9 support/development cut with little warning shortly after he paid for it. The complaint was not about support being cut four years after buying RH9.

IIRC, RH gave users who bought 8/9 a year of support for RHEL WS 3.0.

If in that year, you liked it you could continue to pay for it. Otherwise convert to CentOS or switch to a different distro. RH didn't leave anyone hanging.