[Fwd: Question: Will Fedora 10 Contain KDE 3.5.10 or Not?]

[Michael Schwendt]

On Tue, 5 Aug 2008 21:30:55 -0500 (CDT), Mike McGrath wrote:

> I do think it should be made more
> clear somewhere that Fedora is for enthusiasts or early adopters or
> something.

... for people who either know how to multi-boot or who can choose
between multiple computers.

> Some people can't keep up and they shouldn't be using Fedora

No, they don't want to keep up. Fedora can't keep up either (or else the
releases would be more ready). To people, who try out Fedora, it becomes
obvious that alpha releases are not much different from the final release
and that a promising final release will look like an alpha release any
time soon after another couple of hundred updates.

> thinking that it doesn't move quickly.

This is only understood partially: the short life-cycle, a new
distribution release every six months, bleeding-edge software, tons of
updates already quickly after installation.  What is less obvious is
that not just the development of the distribution moves forward in
general, but that all current releases move forward with way too many
updates, which break stuff that had been working before.