Plea for a more reasonable release cycle
Some people (certainly, not my sysadmin, who generally still prefers Solaris 9 to RHEL 4) don't understand why I strongly believe that a 6 months release cycle for a Linux distro is inappropriate.
Fedora, Ubuntu and Mandriva have opted for a 6 months release cycle. They can't be all wrong, can they?
Back in time, we can see that Slackware 2.2.0 was released 6 months after 2.0.1, and Slackware 2.3 (I remember how I've found it on a Portuguese FTP site) went out only 2 months later! Slackware '96 (aka 3.1) took 11 months to release, and 3.2 took some 9 months, so there isn't any rule here.
Red Hat Linux 4.0 went out 6 months and half after 3.0.3. Then, 4.1 was out after exactly 4 months, 4.2 took 3 months and half, and 5.0 needed about 6 months and half to be ready. Since then, releasing twice a year is a rule that survived the times and it's now present in Fedora, while the enterprise branch has a much more conservative approach.
Why is it so bad to release in a 6 months time?
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