On Thursday 30 November 2006 18:45, Rob Andrews wrote: >On 29-Nov-2006 17:14.13 (GMT), James Kosin wrote: > > Fedora Core is basically the TESTBED of the future of RedHat > > technology. If you wanted safe/stable/etc get RHEL > > http://www.redhat.com/rhel/ > >One wonders how many times people have to say "FEDORA IS NOT A TESTBED > FOR RHEL" before people stop saying that it is. > Maybe that is because that *is* what it is? Its also bug finder par excellent. By the time we've beat on something for 6 months to a year, there is a lot better feel for what the user wants, so in addition to the blatant bug & security fixes we get, RHEL gets the feature enhancements we wanted too but rarely get. Feature enhancements are always "for the next release" it seems. Please don't take me as an ungrateful wretch, I'm well aware that what we expected from any distro was responsive support, but that for RH to be a viable business, that sort of support must be sold rather than given away. And that to protect that support contract sale, a line must be drawn that occasionally seems pretty arbitrary. But we are, at the same time, free to make noise about things when it seems too unjust. I guess that's the reason freshrpms, atrpms and livna have a place in the grand scheme of things isn't it? Overall, I think it works fairly well for all concerned. One old farts $0.02, please adjust for inflation since my birthday back in '34. :) -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
