Anyone from #fedora#atomic images are they all long term supported if not which one is considered LTS? I don't know much about Fedora or its ecosystem. Been mostly debian/ubuntu/arch linux over the decades.
@talesofaprinny All Fedora releases, atomic and otherwise, follow the same 6-month release cycle. Each release is supported for 12 months plus a few weeks, the "few weeks" being the time it takes to close out and archive the current release-minus-two.
The current release and the previous release are always supported.
E.g., Fedora 40 was just released. When Fedora 41 is released, support for Fedora 40 will continue. When Fedora 42 is released, support for Fedora 40 will end.
@Corb_The_Lesser@talesofaprinny Nailed it. In this example, if you're on Fedora 40 you know that you have one month after the release of Fedora 42 to upgrade and stay on a supported version. That's why 13 months to give a little extra time.
What some people do is hang back one major release. So if you start with Fedora 40, skip Fedora 41 and only upgrade to F41 once F42 release. That way you're still getting new stuff to you every 6 months, but it's 6 months after it's been out in the wild.
@Corb_The_Lesser@talesofaprinny It may be a little more involved to specifically choose one version to upgrade to vs another, and unfortunately outside the scope of what I as the person writing this post knows.
Bluefin from @UniversalBlue manages this for users so that you will always be one version behind the latest major release by design. Might be the easiest way to run your system at that pace.
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