ESR: Goodbye Fedora

[Les Mikesell]

Les wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 17:47 -0500, Temlakos wrote:
> SNIP!
>> Does anyone here think that any of Mr. Raymond's suggestions have any 
>> merit? Or shall we write this off to sour grapes?
>>
>> Temlakos
>>
> I have to agree on one point, that user type workstation support is a
> bit lacking.  What I want is a series of systems that support the web,
> allow me to get the content on my machine and use it, not Microsoft, and
> be simple to maintain after install, reasonably supported without a lot
> of bit bashing type read, do, reread, redo, and twiddle until it works.

There are points in time when fedora does these things as well or better 
than anything else.  By the end of any FC version's life it tends to be 
pretty good.  But then you don't want to install it because it takes 
many megabytes of updates to catch up and you will soon have to 
reinstall to have a version that still gets security fixes.

> Yes, Fedora is "cutting edge", but still, the workstation portion needs
> to be reliable, usable, and comprehensive to support additional
> development.  It must be the spring board if Fedora is to be a good
> solid, usable platform for that cutting edge development.

You can't be both a cutting edge platform running new and largely 
untested software versions and rock solid at the same time. That's just 
not possible given the state of the art in software development.


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   Les Mikesell
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