On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 3:23 PM, Mikkel L. Ellertson <mikkel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Les Mikesell wrote: >> Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: >>> Les Mikesell wrote: >>>> Are you working simply to improve your computer? I thought the machines >>>> were supposed to work for us. >>>> >>> Some people like to explore the way machines work, and modify them, >>> rather then just use them. If we didn't have people that like to >>> "tinker", would we have Linux? >> >> Tinkering or not isn't quite the point. Of course things can always be >> improved and a certain number of backwards-incompatible changes are >> going to be needed to fix earlier mistakes or bad designs. The question >> is more whether the tinkering is a means towards the end of better >> stability or usability or an end to itself. If you are working to get >> something usable, you want long, smooth transitions from betas with >> major differences through their useful productive lives with >> considerable overlap between versions so you can tinker with a new test >> copy while the old one continues to deliver value in production. If you >> don't really have a use for the finished product, I guess it wouldn't >> matter. >> > And here I thought tinkering was the point of Fedora. Are you under > the mistaken impression that Fedora is supposed to be a stable, > mainstream desktop distribution? I was under the impression that is > was a testbed for different ideas. Is stability listed anywhere ase > one of Fedora's goals? I would think that the fast version turnover > would indicate the opposite. Just to add --nowhere I read in the Fedora docs or release notes that a particular release is to serve as a testbed for anything. It appears that simply Fedora users have come to terms that that is the case. ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
