On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 11:26:33AM -0400, Dave Jones wrote: > On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 08:20:07AM -0700, Karsten Wade wrote: > > On Sun, 2007-06-10 at 12:01 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > > > because we IMHO heavily discourage people to run > > > rawhide. > > > > I wonder if this is some kind of leftover Red Hat prejudice? > > > > Ironically, rawhide is more unstable because not enough people are > > running it. > > > > Personally, I do all my business work using Fedora. I can risk a few > > hours here and there, but I won't run rawhide if I can't be sure it is > > more stable than currently advertised. > > Something to note is that people have different perception of 'stable' too. > With the kernel changing on an almost daily basis, you can pretty much > forget having kmod's working most of the time due to API churn and > associated breakage. Likewise, various other add-ons that people like > to grab from livna, freshrpms etc will be busted six ways to sunday. > > People expecting this sort of thing to keep working in rawhide will be > in for a surprise. It was tough, but ATrpms managed to stay on par with rawhide for most of the time between test2 and GA. But I run a mirror and have most of the kernel module stuff rebuild automated, the fun was when the rebuilds would not build anymore. Still it was managable. -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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