This morning's lead article in CNET News.com entitled "Red Hat overhauls flagship Linux" had references to Fedora which I found to be be disappointing. They quoted from users in an email list that I believe may have been confused about Fedora. Perhaps some folks on this list can clarify a couple of points. First, there were concerns noted that Fedora will be a fast-changing distro, not conducive to a stable working environment. Granted, wholesale upgrades from one release to another might break things and could consume resources to accomplish the task. However, I am unclear as to whether the commenter's were concerned about ongoing upgrades within a release or were concerned about the need to upgrade all servers and desktops perhaps three times a year. What should a user's expectation be with respect to planned upgrades and releases? Second, one comment described Fedora as "possibly full of breakage." I think the poster may be theorizing about potential future upgrades. I certainly hope that the comment was not made on the basis of the stability of test releases! Third, (unrelated to the news article) concerns access to patches and updates. Is it expected that mirror sites will be able to provide good repositories for apt or yum once FC1 is officially released? Or will we continue to point Fedora's up2date to the redhat.com repository?
