On Satudray, 6 Dec 2008 19:04:27 -0600, "Arthur Pemberton" <pemboa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote : > On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 10:17 AM, Linuxguy123 <linuxguy123@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote: >> Couple that with the fact that the support lifespan is >> realistically less than 1 year and its getting hard to justify >> spending time with Fedora releases. > Well really, I don't think people use Fedora for support. This is why I want to mirror F8. F8 is good for everyday work. F10 is not. F8 will become obsolete soon. So what happens if I want to install a new machine in 6 months from now and immediately start working with it ? F8, with all the updates, is a sure value. Support ? Depends. Support as in 'the floor of the house is solid and supports our furniture', yes. Maybe that's asking too much for a free OS. Maybe the short lives of the OS versions is done on purpose to raise more sells for the commercial product. After all, who can seriously move from one version to the other every six months when you have work to do ? Only people with ample time on their hands can fiddle with adjusting the idiosyncracies of each new release on their own time. Maxbe they don't have ideas of their own to work with, or projects to realize. Maybe they do that on another, stable, machine after all. F8 is good for work. Not for home as I'm still using Fedora Core 6 for making music as the sound on FC6 works (as a sidenote I think CCRMA are up to F8 now, so these guys might have solved jackd issues with pulseaudio-whatever-new-scheme-du-jour was found in there). At each Fedora release I was enthusiastic. Skipped over FC7, installed F8, abruptly scalded with F9, I've installed F10 first in VMWare, and then gave it a try on a real machine only to find out that in the end due to a certain number of annoyances (one regarding networking - not nice when networking is your field and you rely on the good operation of basic methods) I've 'upgraded' to F8 from F10. I miss the nice transparent look,... ... but hey, it works and _I_ work. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
