Fedora Users — Re: how bleeding edge will the next fedora release be?

Simon Windsor wrote:

Hi

So long as Redhat/Fedora initially test all new packages in 'testing'
for a few weeks before general release I don't mind.

If I want a stable system, go for Debian. I have Debian on three servers
for that very reason, but for a fun desktop, Fedora looks fine! I only
hope that this project has the momentum to go forward.

Simon

On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 02:02, David Kistner wrote:

Preston Crawford wrote:

----- Original Message -----
From: David Jansen
Sent: 12/10/2003 12:59:13 PM
To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: how bleeding edge will the next fedora release be?

You can already take packages from the "testing" repositories if you
want to be closer to the bleeding edge than what Fedora offers by default.

I think this is a good mix, FC is a reasonably stable platform which can
be used in production (although more bleeding edge than RH(E)L), and for
those who want newer packages, use beta packages, 2.6test kernels etc.

David Jansen

Exactly. Why the need to move the default closer to bleeding edge? This helps no one and could hurt some of us who want to use a stable distro. Or force us to go distro-shopping again.

Preston


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Bleeding edge would send me to another distro. I don't need the headaches.

I think that the current setup for updates, core, testing and development are good to make a system that satisfies everyone according to what they are willing to risk.

Adding a security section would be a god idea as to keep newly installed and curretly running systems as safe as possible. I like the current structure that Fedora has.

I did get detoured a bit by adding kudzu from the development tree. It killed redhat-config-xfree86 and redhat-config-boot. After downgrading to safer version of kudzu both started working again. So having too easy access to alternative repositories has its penalties also.

Also, I have used RHL since 4.2 version (5.2 as a highly used OS). The evolution is very much as I prefer.

Jim