On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 02:28:32PM +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Derek Martin wrote: > > >> Then came fedora with its bag of problems. Most of the users like me > >> thought , ok, maybe in one or two release it will also reach the same > >> level of comfort as redhat 8, 9. But that never happened. > > > > And it probably never will. Fedora is meant to be a cutting-edge > > testbed for RH enterprise-level distributions. > I find this often made comment - that FC is "bleeding edge" - > utterly bizarre. Well, FWIW, I think the connotations of "cutting edge" and "bleeding edge" are slightly different. To me, the former represents the latest and greatest that actually works, where as the latter represents the absolute newest code available, which will almost certainly crash or even cause damage to your system (hence the reference to blood). So I don't agree. :) > It seems to me, on the contrary, that the Fedora team > is extremely cautious and only takes one tiny step at a time. I think they would disagree with you, as do I. > If you want "bleeding edge" try the development repositories. Indeed. > In my (very long) experience, > Fedora is neither more nor less adventurous > than any other distribution, HUH? Compare Fedora to Debian Stable. There is a UNIVERSE of difference between the two. Compare to other distros and get varying degrees of difference in between the two. -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0x81CFE75D
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