Fedora Linux distros don't have a particularly long shelf-life. As a fast moving distro, the project doesn't have a long term support policy.
With Fedora 15 now out, the Fedora Project is closing the door Fedora 13.
Fedora 13 was a notable release for several reasons.
The Fedora 13 release included a feature called System Rollback with Btrfs, which enables filesystem snapshots. Somewhat coincidentally, the next major release of Fedora, Fedora 16 is now scheduled to include Btrfs as the default filesystem. That's right from tech preview to default in three releases (roughly 18 months)
The release also provided new virtualization capabilities including Stable PCI Addresses and Virt Shared Network Interface technologies.
Having stable PCI addresses enabled virtual guests to retain PCI addresses' space on a host machine. The shared network interface technology enabled virtual machines to use the same physical network interface cards (NICs) as the underlying operating system. All stuff that is now 'old hat' for Red Hat and Fedora users, but it all debuted in Fedora 13.
Fedora since its inception has been a fast-paced distro, that's why Red Hat Linux was discontinued after all. Users, on the server and the desktop must update versions at least once every year or so, and hey if you know that up front, it's not a problem at all.
With Fedora 15 now out, the Fedora Project is closing the door Fedora 13.
"Fedora 13 will reach end of life on 2011-06-24, and no further updates will be pushed out after that time," Fedora developers, Kevin Fenzi wrote in a mailing list posting. "Additionally, with the recent release of Fedora 15, no new packages will be added to the Fedora 13 collection."
Fedora 13 was a notable release for several reasons.
The Fedora 13 release included a feature called System Rollback with Btrfs, which enables filesystem snapshots. Somewhat coincidentally, the next major release of Fedora, Fedora 16 is now scheduled to include Btrfs as the default filesystem. That's right from tech preview to default in three releases (roughly 18 months)
The release also provided new virtualization capabilities including Stable PCI Addresses and Virt Shared Network Interface technologies.
Having stable PCI addresses enabled virtual guests to retain PCI addresses' space on a host machine. The shared network interface technology enabled virtual machines to use the same physical network interface cards (NICs) as the underlying operating system. All stuff that is now 'old hat' for Red Hat and Fedora users, but it all debuted in Fedora 13.
Fedora since its inception has been a fast-paced distro, that's why Red Hat Linux was discontinued after all. Users, on the server and the desktop must update versions at least once every year or so, and hey if you know that up front, it's not a problem at all.
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