Why Fedora ?

[Bill Perkins]

Vikram Goyal wrote:

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Your points (that I snipped out) are all valid, I'm coming in from a 
different point of view. I've been programming in various environments 
for longer than I care to reveal ;) and I've found that while Fedora 
Core isn't something I'd recommend for a desktop-type system to anybody 
but another hacker like myself, I also see the strengths that it has for 
production use- i.e. dns server, mail server (with anti-spam and 
anti-virus), a router, or a firewall. You can also set it up for a 
"typical" home user (email, web browsing, CD/DVD 
playing/burning/producing, etc) and manage it remotely. It all depends 
on what you want to use it for.

> Of course one can use other desktops does not means one wants to,
> especially when one has got used to it. You will know what I mean over
> an extended period of time, when you go in cycle of unlearn and relearn
> to do the same mundane desktop chores which you had mastered or got used
> to in previous releases. And I tell you , it sucks one of interest,
> energy and fills one with frustration.
> My Rs0.002...

Yeah, I used to get ticked off at MS-DOS, and then Windows, whenever a 
new release would come out- they'd change and rearrange everything. 
Probably why I stuck with Windowmaker for so long; its' UI remained 
mostly unchanged for quite some time. I could tinker with it, dress it 
up to look nice, add some desktop widgets to it, and I was a happy 
camper; I could get on with my work. The Fedora software, as you've 
pointed out, tends to get changed around. Part of the price you pay on 
this distro- it keeps changing, and you can spend time maintaining it 
(like Windows, but without the sense of futility). I like to explore new 
ways of doing things; this is why I choose to use Fedora.

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