Distro Longevity

[OCPANet]

I've been using Amahi since November and really like it. I talked it up so much I set up a box for a friend. As a technically limited person I'm starting to realize a potential problem for future end users: the lifecycle of Fedora. I am going to see if I can get it running on CentOS and will post any success I have. Otherwise I'm committed to upgrading OSs on my friends machine every nine months or so.

For Amahi to really appeal to a non-tech end user it needs to be on distro with a much longer lifecycle in my opinion.

[gmw]

Absolutely agreed!

[OCPANet]

This is proving much harder than I'd anticipated. I'm unable to track down many of the dependencies. Still trying though. Anyone else given this a try? Any advice?

[moredruid]

I might want to give it a shot on a VM instance, not sure how the dependency hell will be since fedora is quite some time ahead of CentOS (Red Hat) 5.
Maybe this means putting all dependency packages for CentOS in the amahi repo eventually. This means a lot of work, but it also has an up side: dependency issues are handled in the amahi repo, devs can use a stable snapshot of rpms to develop their apps against.

[cpg]

generally agreed.

its an interesting conundrum as some people do want the latest and greatest.

there are a lot of dependencies, yes. maybe you can post details?