<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 10:53 AM, Gary Buhrmaster <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gary.buhrmaster@gmail.com" target="_blank">gary.buhrmaster@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 5:32 PM, Gabe Rubin <<a href="mailto:gaberubin@gmail.com">gaberubin@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> ...Any idea as to how long Fedora 18 will be supported?<br>
<br>
The Fedora release life schedule is at:<br>
<a href="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Release_Life_Cycle?rd=LifeCycle" target="_blank">https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Release_Life_Cycle?rd=LifeCycle</a><br>
<br>
The Fedora release cycle states that F20 is<br>
currently scheduled to be released on/about<br>
early December. F18 will end support a month<br>
later. Historically, things tend to not go exactly<br>
as planned (scheduled), so maybe a little bit<br>
longer.<br>
<br>
With Fedora, expect to need to upgrade every<br>
year (if you want to stay supported, and do not<br>
need the latest and greatest), and to have the<br>
ability to upgrade to the latest and greatest<br>
every six months (or so).<br>
<br>
Fedora is a "leading/bleeding" edge distro.<br>
Sometimes that is a good thing, and sometimes<br>
it is a bad thing (and sometimes it is an ugly<br>
thing :-) If one's goal is long term stability and<br>
support, you might need to look elsewhere.<br>
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Thanks. I have been riding the fedora upgrade train quite a long time now (and was typically doing my upgrade every thanksgiving break because it gave me some time and I could just jump two release points and that was about the time frame my current version would EOL). I just didn't upgrade from 16 because the preupgrade process to Fedora 17 (and I believe Fedora 17 itself) requires a /boot partition much larger than 200 megs, even though that worked in the past, and I had no way of expanding the /boot partition from 200 megs. There were also major warnings about upgrading to 17 with YUM. <br>
<br>I am just wondering, once I upgrade to 18, how long that will be around, and it looks like it will be supported till at least the end of the year. I guess I can just plan on upgrading to 18 soon or upgrade to 19 during thanksgiving time and restart my typical schedule. I was doing upgrades to every odd numbered release and will probably maintain that. It seems a little better to be one release behind. Makes me somewhat regret not just installing this on CentOS originally. <br>
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