Adventures with Fedora in Biotech

[Bevan C. Bennett]

Nate Bradley wrote:
> Where do you get this idea from?
> 
> Fedora 1 Core is supposed to be a stable, well tested release, built on
> 
> the base of RedHat's earlier stable releases.
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------
> 
> http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/release-notes/
 > Read the release notes carefully!!

I don't consider "It is also a proving ground for new technology that 
may eventually make its way into Red Hat products." to be making any 
comment on stability or tested-ness, merely the project's 'openness to 
new packages/technology'.

> Then read 
> http://www.redhat.com/solutions/migration/rhl/.

And your point is?
The only thing I can find that even hints that Fedora might be less than 
fully baked is in http://www.redhat.com/software/rhelorfedora/ where 
they refer to one of the "primary benefits" of Fedora as "Bleeding edge 
technology". Even that doesn't imply that the bleeding edge 
functionality won't go through a rigorous test process prior to 
incorporation, merely that they'll be incorporated for testing much much 
faster than RHEL plans to do so. For example, FC2 will incorporate the 
2.6 kernel, which is why it's being actively tested now (see 
fedora-test-list for traffic relating to this).

It's not like they dropped 2.6 into FC1 as an 'update'...