Aaron Konstam wrote:
This is the funny thing, Fedora tots itself as "bleeding edge"
Where?
yet only do so called security backports to stuff, like the ol true RH
used to, which was cool because RH never promoted itself as bleeding edge..
Factually incorrect. By last count, only about 10% in Fedora Core
updates is backports. If you take into consideration Fedora Extras the
percentage would probably go down even further.
it seems its bleeding edge only when it suites them
It is absolutely maintainer's decision. Bleeding edge on pretty much all
packages is called "Fedora Development".
That is strange. Nearly every week someone atacks a poster who complains
about the latest Fedora by saying Fedora is supposed to be bleeding
edge. If they want stability they are told to go to a different version
of Linux. Is that opinion not shared by the Fedora Board people?
It's not strange, it is just different levels of bleeding (and testing).
Fedora development is supposed to be suitable for testing only, so not
many people even try it. Fedora is when the developers think things are
suitable for general use, but since few people tested it in the
development process, there will be some surprises still lurking in the
code to be discovered at the first large deployment. This process has
to happen somewhere.
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Les Mikesell
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