yum flavors vs/ fc1, fc2, fc3...infinity

[Jeff Ratliff]

On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 07:38:45PM -0700, John McBride wrote:
> Just curious...what is the rationale of forcing new installs every 6 
> mos. as opposed to having some type of "yum flavoring" like 
> debian...unstable, testing, stable type of thing? Then just have 
> "fedora" and a "fresh" set of cd's (requiring less download for update 
> than an older set).

I think fedora.redhat.com does a pretty good job of explaining the
rationale behind the project. The Fedora Project has been pretty 
up front about this. It's fast moving and changes a lot. It's not
recommended for production systems because it does change a lot. 
This has been discussed many times. 

If you want a distro that does things like Debian does, why not 
use... Debian!!  I for one am for a world where all distributions 
are not the same. Use the one you like, there are plenty of 
choices.