On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 10:57 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: > Rudolf Kastl wrote: > > from a developers point of view it doesent matter much what you use... > > From a developer? Of Linux? Or of Linux software? > > I disagree with this statement entirely. Fedora Core is not a > stable release. For that reason, IMO, it is unsuitable for > doing stable software development. And I have to disagree on this. To me, Fedora is the right compromise between "stagnation" and "bleeding edge". It's the right mixture, I need for my work, application development. > OTOH, if one is designing > commercial software, and wants a test machine or two set up > the way one projects the world will be when the software is > ready for release, then one probably needs to have something > like Fedora core on those test machines. Application developers often work the other way round: They use a distro like Fedora for development, to be prepared for the "status-quo" at the point in time, when a SW will be ready for release. > > if you identify and report/fix bugs _upstream_ you are fixing the > > stuff for all distros... > > For all *RHEL* distros. ... and for Fedora. > > theres no such thing as "distro wars" with experienced linux users and > > real open source developers. you seem to be rather new to the world of > > linux. > > Oh yes there are "distro wars". ... Rudolf was referring to "experienced users and real open source developers" ... I do agree with him. Ralf -- Registered Linux User #26 http://counter.li.org
