On Sat, 2010-03-13 at 21:48 +0100, Thomas Janssen wrote: > Why, do you think, should just a single user change to Fedora, away > from Ubuntu or any other Distro? Because we're blue? If the only reason to choose Fedora over Ubuntu is because Fedora shoves out updates at a higher pace into stable releases, then something is severely wrong. There are many good reasons to choose either distro. I happen to quite like both, for different reasons. Fedora moves new features into rawhide at a higher pace, and Ubuntu is something that I could see a newcomer having a lot of success with. But none of that has anything to do with what should be happening in stable Fedora releases. > the same just in RPM? Some "slow-it-down-people" do really think that > a half baken X-server 1.7beta will make users of other distros go away > because they use just 1.6, or our release kernel is 2.6.31.3 and > others have 2.6.31.1 trough release-time? I don't care whether some new hardware gets enabled through an update. I would rather that happen in rawhide and the users who can't use the hardware in the stable release have to wait an average of 3 months in the worst case that there isn't some level of support available now. Few other Operating Systems move at that kind of pace anyway. I do care that regressions in the kernel, X, or some other subsystem might break things that users who are supported are relying on, just to enable other stuff. To me, the fear of regressions outweighs any possible other benefit. This isn't Enterprise Linux. I don't need a support period covering the equivalent of 14 Fedora release cycles, I am fully happy with some considerable churn every 6 or 12 months on my desktop or laptop in the interest of being up to date with the latest tech, but I am not happy to have that churn be on a normal non-upgrade day when I expect my laptop to work (and an update just before a meeting to be safe with respect to that laptop running a presentation immediately afterward). Somewhat shockingly, some people do use Fedora for day to day stuff. > You will never get a single user of the other distros if you dont have > anything special to offer. Fedora offers a higher rate of new and experimental features. Those should be kept in rawhide *where they belong*, for 6 months, until they have had some decent testing and are ready to be released. Users are users, they are not guinea pigs to be experimented upon. Jon. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
