On Sun, 2008-12-07 at 13:08 -0600, Arthur Pemberton wrote: > On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 12:55 PM, Tom Horsley <tom.horsley@xxxxxxx> wrote: > >> because it gives me a chance > >> to try to bust the NUMBER ONE MYTH about Fedora -- that Fedora is "just > >> a beta for RHEL" > > > > Well, I suppose he can try to bust the myth all he wants, but > > available evidence consistently indicates that Fedora is where > > things get beta tested before they appear in redhat. That's > > why it is OK that NetworkManager isn't backwards compatible > > and doesn't properly support wildly uncommon configurations > > like "static IP" :-). That's why it is OK that gdm isn't backwards > > compatible and doesn't support wildly uncommon things like > > saving your session state. That's why Fedora users got to find > > all the fun problems with SELINUX before they dumped it on > > paying customers who might have reacted with torches and > > pitchforks. > > > > I like having a beta release of redhat - it gives me a place to > > test my software to find out what is gonna break in a future > > redhat release, that's why I run fedora, but please don't ever > > try to convince me fedora isn't primarily a beta for redhat, > > there are just too many facts standing in the way. > > > All the evidence you have stated points to Fedora being a ground zero > for ALOT of software development in Linux. => I.e. Fedora is not the bleeding edge, but "beyond bleeding edge". This is not what Fedora once was meat to be. Ralf -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
