On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 2:01 PM, lanas <lanas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. So is F9. Will update to F10 as soon as possible myself. > F10 is > not. That's the nice thing about having opinions and choice. > F8 will become obsolete soon. I thought F8 was already obsolete now that F10 is out. > 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. Well that's nice an inflammatory. > After all, who can seriously move from one version > to the other every six months when you have work to do ? Well, that's no issue for my desktop. And I run Centos on my servers. > Only people > with ample time on their hands can fiddle with adjusting the > idiosyncracies of each new release on their own time. Okay then, > 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. Or maybe it isn't a big deal for them. With a livecd you can be up and running in as long as it takes to backup and restore your /home and /etc > 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). I'd just remove Pulseaudio if it is getting in yuor way. That's what I did for myself. However there is clear evidence that some people really need PulseAudio. > 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,... My only annoyance with F9 was pulseaudio. And removing it was very easy. > ... but hey, it works and _I_ work. Right so what was the point of this email then. -- Fedora 9 : sulphur is good for the skin ( www.pembo13.com ) -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
