Josh Coffman wrote:
--- Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Friday 28 October 2005 11:57, 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. 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.
And I disagree violently with that premise. Not
everyone has the
luxury of haveing a ready test mule, one that can be
broken for
extended periods of time while problems are worked
out. We do use
these machines in our everyday life.
If I can't have a reasonable expectation of doing an
upgrade and having
it continue to work for the things that are
important to me, then those
cd's I download and burn will never get anywhere
near the drive at
reboot time. The recent 4.0 release and its
nightmares is a case in
point. There is absolutely no excuse for such a
broken install that
takes a week for a guru to straighten out and a gig
of downloads to fix
stuff that should have been fixed in the release
before the release was
ever seeded to the servers.
[snip]
if you identify and report/fix bugs _upstream_
you are fixing the
stuff for all distros...
For all *RHEL* distros.
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". I just don't
participate in 'em.
also for me personally fc4 is too stable and thus
pretty boring for
someone who likes to be a bit more active with
the linux community.
;)
i am personally helping testing rawhide because i
like to have a bit
more challange and i love helping to make future
versions better.
Please don't top post.
Mike
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Cheers, Gene
Hmm... Well, I'll answer the topic question.
I tried lots of distro's in my search for a windows
replacement this summer. I happened to like Debian and
Apt. Loved SimplyMepis, but it became pretty clear to
me that I was going to have to learn how to make
somethings work. (When I say lots of distros... I
think my laptop is 1/2 pound lighter from the hard
drive grinding...)
I wanted something fast, free, relatively complete but
not really bloated, and optionally bleeding-edge.
Fedora fit the bill for me. And the community has
REALLY helped me to learn and make things work.
Although I'm curious about other new releases, I'd
still probably pick Fedora because:
- it's stable (clean installs)
- easy to update
- good performance (easy to tweak to be really fast)
- free
- great community
- i know it (somewhat)
- learned skills are portable to companies that use
Red Hat.
- on my desktop, it just works. no fuss.
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In summary (if I may): Perhaps the original poster should realize that
trying to drum up support for a mass exodus away from a particular
product on a mailing list designed to support said product is
anti-productive, and not likely to be very effective.
It does seem as those the poster made a few worthwhile comments,
however, and this community being what it is, I'm certain they will
given due diligence.
David-Paul Niner, RHCE
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