Upgrade RedHat 9 to Fedora

Stewart Williams stewart_cw at yahoo.co.uk
Wed Aug 3 19:49:14 UTC 2005


Mike McCarty wrote:

> Stewart Williams wrote:
>
>>
>>> If you have really important data like that, then you might want
>>> to reconsider whether FCx is an "upgrade". FC is, in effect, a
>>> beta test release.
>>
>>
>>
>> Are you saying that every "stable" release of Fedora is actually on 
>> classed as a "beta test" release?
>>
>> If this is so, then why call it a "stable" release? I run FC on many 
>> production servers and have found them to be very reliable.
>
>
> Where have you ever seen me refer to an FCx release as stable?
>
> As I have used the terms for decades:
>
>     alpha test    test done by development engineers
>     beta test    test done by customers
>
> Since all FC releases are intended for test by customers (see
> the website) they are all beta test releases.
>
> I am not an FC developer.
>
> Mike

I didn't mean you refer to them as stable, I mean't the Fedora project. 
They usually issue 2 or 3 test releases then a release that they 
consider stable, but people keep saying they are not stable enough and 
are too bleeding-edge. So why do people use it on servers then?

Sorry to go off the subject of this thread, but this keep baffling me as 
a newcomer to Linux.

		
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