[Fwd: Wikipidia - Goodbye Red Hat and Fedora]

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 9:35 AM, Patrice Dumas <pertusus at free.fr> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 05:10:29PM +0200, Matej Cepl wrote:
>> On 2008-10-10, 14:36 GMT, Dmitry Butskoy wrote:
>> > What should do some previously RedHat-oriented enthusiast, when
>> > all the area for application of his enthusiasm is some
>> > "production environment"?  Use RHEL/CentOS anywhere and Fedora
>> > on his laptop only? But RHEL/CentOS is far from the "bleeding
>> > edge", hence his enthusiasm just disappear...
>>
>> Think about that and repeat until you get it -- "distro is either
>> bleeding-edge or stable; tercium non datur".
>
> It is a bit more complicated. A distro may begin its life bleeding edge
> and become stable as time goes by, if it is still maintained. And a
> stable distro may have parts that are bleeding-edge. This is not
> necessarily easy to implement, but these scenarios certainly have
> merits.
>

It can only become stable if you have people focus on things and not
look at new stuff. And usually it requires resources that are
expensive.



-- 
Stephen J Smoogen. -- BSD/GNU/Linux
How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed
in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice"