On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 05:55:33PM +0000, Terry Barnaby wrote: > On 09/03/10 16:50, Ewan Mac Mahon wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 09:33:45AM -0500, Al Dunsmuir wrote: > >> > >> I have limited time to do system installs and maintenance. Sticking > >> with one distribution helps keep that sane. I have a dual boot XP + > >> Ubuntu machine that I do some play with, but I find it strange, having > >> used Fedora since FC3. > >> > > You should consider running a RHEL rebuild like Scientific Linux or > > CentOS then; they're very Fedora-like in most respects, and are > > supported for very, very long periods. > > > The trouble is that Fedora does not want to lose this user or group of > users. > I don't think it's about the users so much as the uses; I run Fedora on machines it's suitable for, and SL where that's a better fit. I am not lost to Fedora. Equally Al Dunsmuir clearly also has multiple systems (hence wanting to keep one distribution); so there's no reason to think they couldn't do the same. > If all of the users that use Fedora for reasonably important > tasks (not mission critical) stop using it, it will lose all of the > real use testing and feedback to upstream developers that Fedora is > good for and Linux needs. > I use Fedora for important things, both by home and work desktops run it, I just don't use it for things that I expect to run for a long time without interruption or intervention or alteration. > My feeling is that is likely to be happening ... > > I think Fedora should have a carefully balanced position between the > mission critical systems and completely play only systems. > I think that's a false dichotomy; Fedora shouldn't be a bad system unsuitable for real work, it should be a good system. But it can still be a good fast-moving system. There doesn't seem much purpose in trying to turn it into a good stable long running server system, when we have a perfectly good one of those already. Clearly, if there was a way to have Fedora's 'freshness', but RHEL's lack of hassle that would be ideal, but it's not clear that there is. Ewan -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
