Why Fedora ?

[Josh Coffman]

--- Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net> wrote:

> On Friday 28 October 2005 11:57, Mike McCarty wrote:
> >Rudolf Kastl wrote:
> >> from a developers point of view it doesent matter
> much what you
> use...
> >
> > From a developer? Of Linux? Or of Linux software?
> >
> >I disagree with this statement entirely. Fedora
> Core is not a
> >stable release. For that reason, IMO, it is
> unsuitable for
> >doing stable software development. OTOH, if one is
> designing
> >commercial software, and wants a test machine or
> two set up
> >the way one projects the world will be when the
> software is
> >ready for release, then one probably needs to have
> something
> >like Fedora core on those test machines.
> 
> And I disagree violently with that premise.  Not
> everyone has the
> luxury of haveing a ready test mule, one that can be
> broken for
> extended periods of time while problems are worked
> out.  We do use
> these machines in our everyday life.
> 
> If I can't have a reasonable expectation of doing an
> upgrade and having
> it continue to work for the things that are
> important to me, then those
> cd's I download and burn will never get anywhere
> near the drive at
> reboot time.  The recent 4.0 release and its
> nightmares is a case in
> point. There is absolutely no excuse for such a
> broken install that
> takes a week for a guru to straighten out and a gig
> of downloads to fix
> stuff that should have been fixed in the release
> before the release was
> ever seeded to the servers.
[snip] 
> 
> >
> >> if you identify and report/fix bugs _upstream_
> you are fixing the
> >> stuff for all distros...
> >
> >For all *RHEL* distros.
> >
> >> theres no such thing as "distro wars" with
> experienced linux users
> and
> >> real open source developers. you seem to be
> rather new to the world
> of
> >> linux.
> >
> >Oh yes there are "distro wars". I just don't
> participate in 'em.
> >
> >> also for me personally fc4 is too stable and thus
> pretty boring for
> >> someone who likes to be a bit more active with
> the linux community.
> ;)
> >> i am personally helping testing rawhide because i
> like to have a bit
> >> more challange and i love helping to make future
> versions better.
> >
> >Please don't top post.
> >
> >Mike
> >--
> > -- 
> Cheers, Gene

Hmm... Well, I'll answer the topic question.

I tried lots of distro's in my search for a windows
replacement this summer. I happened to like Debian and
Apt. Loved SimplyMepis, but it became pretty clear to
me that I was going to have to learn how to make
somethings work. (When I say lots of distros... I
think my laptop is 1/2 pound lighter from the hard
drive grinding...)

I wanted something fast, free, relatively complete but
not really bloated, and optionally bleeding-edge.
Fedora fit the bill for me. And the community has
REALLY helped me to learn and make things work.

Although I'm curious about other new releases, I'd
still probably pick Fedora because:
- it's stable (clean installs)
- easy to update
- good performance (easy to tweak to be really fast)
- free
- great community
- i know it (somewhat)
- learned skills are portable to companies that use
Red Hat.
- on my desktop, it just works. no fuss.



	
		
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