Bruno Wolff III wrote:
>> Users lose either of these ways. The first question is why does
anyone
who has a working kernel and device drivers _ever_ need to install a
behavior-changing replacement - and particularly within an FCx release
When they want a feature in the new kernel. Features I am personally looking
forward to is the removal of the limit of arguments to exec and dmcrypt
getting write barrier support back.
where the next one is only months away? If there is an answer to that
Your assuming that there will be an nVidia driver for the next Fedora release.
That isn't necessary going to be the case.
But that's not a big problem until updates stop for the current release.
You can put off installing a new release as long as necessary. A
kernel update within a release that breaks needed drivers is a big problem.
I think trying to make Fedora for everyone is a mistake. It's current missions
of using all free software (now including build tools, making it almost a
source based distro) and keeping up with very recent versions of software
included fits what I want very well. It isn't a no headache system though.
For people admining their own system that want something that just works,
Ubuntu seems to be the system of choice these days.
Don't forget fedora's 'other' purpose of evolving to near-verbatim RHEL
releases - which then has the problem of frozen application versions for
the long, long term between those releases. I agree that the current
fedora disto acting as a fast-changing testbed is a necessary evil, but
I wish there were something that used the same packaging and admin
techniques that would make a usable desktop - like an FCx release
usually becomes for a short period near the end of its life.
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Les Mikesell
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