Suggestion that we drop the Fedora base, and go with Ubuntu
Posted: Thu May 14, 2015 12:51 pm
I'm tossing this out for opinions from everyone, and hopefully consideration by the development team. In the past, we tried an Ubuntu-based version of Amahi (on the 12.04 LTS). I'm suggesting that we drop the Fedora based version, or at least make the Ubuntu one a default moving on.
The reason that I'm proposing this is simple: Amahi development isn't on the same release schedule as Fedora (or Ubuntu), which means that people who are running the latest version lose support for the underlying OS at some point. Fedora only supports their version for 25 to 26 months (1 month past the next "official" release), where Ubuntu supports their LTS for five years.
Unless the development team is going to get enough help to create new versions (or update the current version to the latest release of the OS), it makes more sense to stick with an Operating System that will provide us with updates for a longer period of time.
So my proposal is that the team try to migrate Amahi 7 to Ubuntu 12.04 (or even 14.04), and then start developing Amahi 8 for Ubuntu 14.04 or 16.04.
Thank you for considering this.
Patrick.
The reason that I'm proposing this is simple: Amahi development isn't on the same release schedule as Fedora (or Ubuntu), which means that people who are running the latest version lose support for the underlying OS at some point. Fedora only supports their version for 25 to 26 months (1 month past the next "official" release), where Ubuntu supports their LTS for five years.
Unless the development team is going to get enough help to create new versions (or update the current version to the latest release of the OS), it makes more sense to stick with an Operating System that will provide us with updates for a longer period of time.
So my proposal is that the team try to migrate Amahi 7 to Ubuntu 12.04 (or even 14.04), and then start developing Amahi 8 for Ubuntu 14.04 or 16.04.
Thank you for considering this.
Patrick.