Wanna give me a hand debunking this?
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Mon Nov 26 21:55:14 UTC 2007
Jeff Spaleta wrote:
>> Are there plans to add the things that would most likely to be needed -
>> the popular desktop packages like OpenOffice, Firefox, Evolution,
>> Thunderbird, etc. in the versions that fedora is shipping?
>
> If you want consistent hot newness.. you use Fedora the distribution
> and you deal with the release lifetime issue accordingly based on your
> local policy, resources and needs. If you need maintenance timescales
> then you sacrifice getting consistent access to hot newness and you
> choose CentOS or RHEL because they give you longer term support and
> thus reduce your local resource needs over a multiple year timescale.
>
> Its a trade off and you must choose which distribution offering meets
> your needs best. If neither fits well, then I would suggest you
> consider segregating your needs locally into critical services and
> user desktop/workstation so that you can more easily track Fedora the
> distribution for user-facing new hotness while keeping critical
> production services on slower moving RHEL or CentOS.
That part is obvious. The part that is missing is a distribution that
fits for desktops. I don't ever want my devices to get new names _ever_
once a system is installed and working, desktop or not - for the life of
the machine. If it is working reasonably well, I'm not particularly
interested in anything but bugfix updates to device drivers and the
kernel because there's a fair chance that anything else will completely
break things. On the other hand, desktop apps aren't really done yet so
there are good reasons to want to run the latest versions - and if there
are bugs they still won't crash the machine. I suppose you could, for
short periods of time, disable kernel updates in fedora, but then you
don't get even the bugfixes which seems like a really bad idea.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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