Parshwa,
On 16 January 2011 20:45, Parshwa Murdia b330bkn@gmail.com wrote:
Another option, if you are concerned about the short life cycle of Fedora, would be to look at Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. The 'LTS' means "Long Term Support" and will be supported for a fairly long time. 10.04 was released last April, so it will be quite up to date.
Okay, as seem Ubuntu is supposed to have a longer life.
Ubuntu LTS has a 3 year life cycle overall for desktops, 5 year for servers.
Okay, but my meaning to say was that it has an end of life every six months.
Ubuntu and Fedora have a new release approx every 6 months but their end of life is 18 months. (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LTS and http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LifeCycle#End_of_Life_.28EOL.29)
I personally would recommend Ubuntu LTS for family members. CentOS is geared for technical people.