<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Mark Be happy with your eventual choice. When some software is imposed, one is often negative, but when one chooses, then one is happy, and the complaints are about bugs. I am sure that your choice is as bug free as is Fedora, or perhaps even more, given your explanation. Regards and thank you for I guess is the longest thread in Fedora-list. :) Leslie --- On Mon, 2/9/09, Mark Haney <mhaney@ercbroadband.org> wrote: <blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> From: Mark Haney <mhaney@ercbroadband.org> Subject: Re: WHY I WANT TO STOP USING FEDORA!!! To: "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora." <fedora-list@redhat.com> Date: Monday, February 9, 2009, 4:14 PM <div class="plainMail">Mike Chalmers wrote: > As I said above I am sorry for the initial RANT. Thank you to all for > your patience and help. > > I have been looking into ARCH, which someone, mentioned above, and I > think their philosophy towards Linux is, quite good, a rolling > release. It is harder to work with initially seeing as it does not > have a graphical install process. It is a minimal installation, which > I like, and you install only what you want after the minimal > installation. It also releases the latest packages usually in 1 day or > 2. Didn't know that there was a distro like ARCH. > > For the question above, I do like to stay up to date, and the GUI > matters a pretty good bit to me. I love the changes that KDE made, > with their GUI, when they went to 4 and now to 4.2! > I have to throw my 2 cents worth in. I have to agree that doing a full upgrade every 6-8 months gets tiresome when you have a dozen or so machines running it. However, preupgrade does seem to help that a lot and it's getting better with oddball setups like some I have. That said, rolling updates are the way to go. No need for continual upgrades to 'releases' just update to the latest version of a package and be done with it. I'm just not sure a 'major release' design is the way to go any longer. With internet access the way it is, why not just do rolling updates? Personally this is why I use gentoo more and more. No need to download an ISO or anything of the sort, just switch to a new profile, update the needed packages and you are at the latest 'release'. Then, update packages as they are released as stable. (or as ~arch in the gentoo world). Nothing else makes as much sense to me in the open source world that isn't a 'paid' or 'enterprise' edition. -- Frustra laborant quotquot se calculationibus fatigant pro inventione quadraturae circuli Mark Haney Sr. Systems Administrator ERC Broadband (828) 350-2415 Call (866) ERC-7110 for after hours support -- fedora-list mailing list <a ymailto="mailto:fedora-list@redhat.com" href="/mc/compose?to=fedora-list@redhat.com">fedora-list@redhat.com</a> To unsubscribe: <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list</a> Guidelines: <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines" target="_blank">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines</a> </div></blockquote></td></tr></table>