[OT] Is Rawhide usable for day-to-day operation - reply when you've time, no hurry

[John Summerfield]

Arijit Sarkar wrote:
> Hi,
> For the past one year (almost) I am into Linux world. I used Ubuntu and 
> then Debian on my desktop before. Recently I've installed Fedora 8 into 
> my laptop after hearing lots of good things about it. And I found that 
> in many cases Fedora 8 is better than Ubuntu 7.04 (frank opinion). No 
> matter how "easy to use" ubuntu methods are, I found some interesting 
> learning curves/excitements in Fedora. So I choose Fedora for my lenovo 
> N3000.
> 
> Now, while using /debian/, I learned about its /testing, unstable/ 
> branches. Later I successfully switched to "/Testing/" (currently 
> '/lenny/') and quite happy to use that. Since it's a home PC, I don't 
> mind if sometimes few things break and I've wait for few days for the 
> fixes.
> 
> Does Fedora has three branches like debian - /stable, testing, unstable/ 
> ? I guess "rawhide" is like "testing" in debian. Am I correct?
> In debian, people thinks that 'testing' distribution is almost usable 
> for day-to-day use. Can rawhide be used for the same? Is 
> 'debian-testing' and 'fedora-rawhide' comparable?
> Can I install a /rawhide /for my laptop? Can you suggest the move to 
> 'rawhide' fedora install.
> 

"stable" in the Red Hat world is "Red Hat Enterprise linux." It costs. 
There are clones such as Scientific Linux (actually, a near clone) and 
CentOS with are more akin to Debian Stable. RHEL is what conservative 
people bet their business on. Less well-moneyed uses a cheap clone. 
That's where I sit for normail production work, I use CentOS (or WBEL, 
another clone) on servers and a desktop, Scientlific Linux on a desktop.

Fedora is more like Debian's testing, or Ubuntu's mainline. I run it on 
a separate system, where I want to play with the latest technology. The 
pooter has hardware virtualisation, and I use Xen.

Rawhide translates most nearly to SID. Still in development. I'm 
pondering on this, probably will run it as a guest under F8. Not the 
best for beginners without a geek on standby.

Some people run SID, Some people run Rawhide; both are possible, and I'm 
sure some users of both don't appreciate the risks involved. Fine for 
geeks and wannabe geeks.




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