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The recent announcement that Wikipedia has standardized on the Ubuntudistribution has launched a round of introspection within the Fedoracommunity. It has been suggested that Fedora would have been a more viablecandidate for Wikipedia if it offered a longer support period for at leastsome of its releases. The resulting discussion has been long andwide-ranging; it has also brought back some memories of the experience ofthe Fedora Legacy project. Click below (subscribers only) for the fullarticle.

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