What Fedora makes sucking for me - or why I am NOT Fedora

[Les Mikesell]

Colin Walters wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 9:35 PM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> wrote:
>> Michael Schwendt wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 12:32:12 -0600, Arthur wrote:
>>>
>>>> 6 months is a pretty long time to wait for a major release. I
>>>> understand the rationale, but if this is going to be the new Fedora,
>>>> best announce this and let  everyone know so that they can reevaluate
>>>> if Fedora is for them. As things are, I feel that we are being _too_
>>>> conservative. Any further move to more conservatism seriously affects
>>>> Fedora's usefulness to me.
>>> Why?
>> Because, like me, he chose Fedora *because* of the stream of updates, we
>> *want* those updates, including version upgrades. We would be using Ubuntu
>> or CentOS or any of the other bazillion conservative distros otherwise.
>>
>> A distro with a 6-month release cycle, but conservative updates, already
>> exists, it's called Ubuntu, why do we need to copy it? If you want Ubuntu,
>> go use Ubuntu.
> 
> I don't think that's a good argument - there are quite a lot of
> nontrivial differences between the two aside from the updates, such as
> commitment to Free Software, multilib, different strengths in package
> set, etc.  We don't need to change the world, just add an idiot filter
> in bodhi =)

And the big difference: if you also need to keep RHEL and Centos boxes 
working, debian/Ubuntu is quite a culture shock.

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com