On Fri, 2010-03-12 at 13:56 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Fri, 2010-03-12 at 15:31 -0600, Matthew Woehlke wrote: > > Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > > On 03/12/2010 04:36 PM, Thomas Janssen wrote: > > >> And i disagree here. People like that have to face that Fedora or any > > >> similar distro isn't for them. > > > > > > I don't see why you want to continue pushing off users instead of > > > working out a method that satisfies more users. > > > > Ubuntu's method satisfies more users, that is why they use Ubuntu. > > People¹ use Fedora because it is leading edge. If we sacrifice that > > identity, then people¹ won't have any reason to use Fedora over Ubuntu. > > Even if we were to institute a more conservative update policy, we > wouldn't necessarily actually sacrifice Fedora's leading-edge nature. > > Point The First: Ubuntu's update policy is really extremely > conservative. To a rough approximation they update almost nothing. They > do security fixes. You have to argue really, really hard to get any kind > of bug fixed, though. None of the proposals made so far is anywhere near > as tight as Ubuntu's policy. > > Point The Second: post-release updates are not the be-all and end-all. > At release time, Fedora is generally more cutting-edge in at least core > components than the time-equivalent Ubuntu release (and Mandriva, and > SUSE, and yadda yadda). Case in point - F12 and Ubuntu 9.10 are more or > less contemporaneous, yet F12 shipped with newer versions of many > components, notably X server. (We're the _only_ major late-2009 cycle > distro to have shipped X server 1.7, everyone else shipped 1.6). So even > if both followed exactly identical update policies, Fedora would still > be the more 'cutting-edge' release. Keeping that cutting-edge release practice, but adding to that stability once released would indeed be a very unique and desirable niche for Fedora to fill. -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature! identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating
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