On 02/17/2013 10:27 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote:
On 02/17/2013 05:22 PM, jonc wrote:
On 02/17/2013 04:39 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
Am 17.02.2013 22:35, schrieb jonc:
It's my understanding that Fedora's primary role is to evaluate and
explore software for Red Hat, not necessarily
to produce a stable consumer-level product. That's very much
Ubuntu's mission, but it isn't Fedora's. I expect
Ubuntu not to break. I expect Fedora to break. Oddly, in my own
experience, they both break about the same amount.
i expect NO DISTRIBUTION to break
I don't think meeting that criterion is part of Fedora's objectives,
any more than it is part of Debian Sid's objectives. People may or may
not agree that Fedora follows an appropriate development path, but it
seems obvious that pushing the edges is antithetical to producing a
rock-solid distribution.
Fedora 18 with Gnome Shell has been pretty good for me. Can I say that
about every Fedora release? No. There was a release, for instance,
that I couldn't install. So, if this F18 installation goes up in
smoke, I'll move on, no hard feelings. And, certainly, if I was doing
anything that *had* to be break-free, I wouldn't be using Fedora. I'd
most likely (go back) to using CentOS.
Judging by your last statement am I to assume that CentOS is more
"reliable" than Fedora?...
If it isn't, being based on RHEL, it raises questions about the
effectiveness of RH's stabilization period effectiveness.
Personally, I use CentOS/Scientific Linux in most cases, and only use
Fedora when I absolutely have to. I find (and file) way too many bugs in
supposedly stable EL as it is. With Fedora I've given up filing bugs
because most of them get auto-closed when the release goes EOL without
ever having been looked at or addressed. From what I can tell, if you're
not filing against rawhide, there's no point in filing a Fedora bug. I'm
not saying that EL filed bugs get fixed any faster, most of the time,
but at least the shelf life of it is long enough that the bug doesn't
outlive the EOL deadline.
Gordan
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