On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 2:31 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I know it isn't suitable for some uses. I tried to learn what I could about Fedora before I actually installed it on my machine. It seems however that some people have unrealistic expectations. The bleeding edge and stable are not words i would expect to fit into the same sentence under any circumstances. Having said that it has been very stable for me, and by stable i mean that it has never failed to boot, have i had issues? Sure but the basic functionality has always been there for me. Maybe some features break from time to time but i have always been able to access the web to solve my problems, would i use it for a server? maybe but I'd not have much room to complain if I tried to ride the bleeding edge and fell off the cliff because of it.
max bianco wrote:Fedora tries to stay very close to current software development. That
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> am I the only person that voluntarily uses Fedora? I have only been
> using it a short time but i understood it was a moving target when i
> signed on. This thread reminds me of KL. It wasn't that long ago so i
> am sure most of you remember to whom i am referring.
> Fedora is what it is and some have more experience than others. Is there
> some other lesson to take away from this thread?
means you get the new features as well as the new bugs. On a desktop or
as a second, non-critical machine that is a reasonable tradeoff,
especially if you use the applications where the new features matter.
This thread is mostly about servers where downtime is to be avoided at
(almost) any cost and you want things to keep working for years. It
isn't about fedora being inherently bad, it just isn't suitable for some
uses.
I know it isn't suitable for some uses. I tried to learn what I could about Fedora before I actually installed it on my machine. It seems however that some people have unrealistic expectations. The bleeding edge and stable are not words i would expect to fit into the same sentence under any circumstances. Having said that it has been very stable for me, and by stable i mean that it has never failed to boot, have i had issues? Sure but the basic functionality has always been there for me. Maybe some features break from time to time but i have always been able to access the web to solve my problems, would i use it for a server? maybe but I'd not have much room to complain if I tried to ride the bleeding edge and fell off the cliff because of it.
