Benjamin J. Weiss wrote:
All,
Okay, this is probably going to immerse me in a flame war, but, to put it bluntly, I'm scared spitless.
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Would it hurt that much to slow down the release cycle of fedora to match
what RHL used to enjoy? To help ensure that a *WORKING* distro is released?
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Don't get me wrong. I loved RHL with an evangelical zeal. I desperately want to do the same with fedora. But I just don't have the confidence in it that I did with RHL...not after having subscribed to this list.
Ben
Ben,
Fedora is new. Not only is it RH10, but it is also a split from the "old" way of distribution. What we have is two big things happening at one time. Redhat is in essence handing the core off to the open-source community. You are seeing lots of messages here because there is no other support model now. Many of these folks were probably calling/writing RedHat and you just didn't see them. I believe that is the whole point of doing this sort of distribution anyway.
I have every expectation that the core will stabilize, but it will probably be with Fedora-core 2 or possibly Fedora-core 3. If you are worried, stick with RH9. It's a very solid OS and will handle most, if not all, of your computing needs. I consider myself and enthusiest and made the leap to see what all of the fuss was about. After smoothing out a few bumps, I've been happy with the results. I believe that RH9 is more stable than FC1, but not by a whole lot.
I find the update mechanism is actually easier in FC1, but only after you go through the stumbling block of learning a new way to do it. I maintain a localized repository for udpates and it is much easier to setup/maintain in FC1 than it was in RH9. And from the client side, it becomes a simple one-liner in a config file. The problem is that parts of it are broken, but there are fixes available. You won't see this in FC2 because it will definitely be fixed by then.
If you continue with FC1, please don't worry too much. Even though you may feel you are in a buggy environment, most things run very well. If you are only using client tools (browsing, e-mail, etc.), then you probably won't see any problems.
-- Doug Brott brott@xxxxxxxx
