On Fri, 2012-12-07 at 16:47 +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: > On 12/07/2012 03:51 PM, David Woodhouse wrote: > > On Fri, 2012-12-07 at 15:40 +0100, Caterpillar wrote: > >> The unique and most impotant negative feedback I had it when I > >> upgraded a system from Fedora 14 to 15, that was the upgrade from > >> Gnome 2 to Gnome 3. > >> … > >> Fedora community should test big transitions like Gnome 2->3 for a > >> longer period of time > > FWIW if it was running Fedora 14 and the user was content with it, I > > probably wouldn't have upgraded to Fedora 15. You could have waited 6 > > months and gone straight to Fedora 16. GNOME 3 was a bit better by then. > > > > I upgrade my *own* machines fairly aggressively — this box has been > > running Fedora 18 since August 31st for example. But I don't necessarily > > upgrade everyone's machine to *every* Fedora release. > > I know one *nix gray beard that is still running F9 on his workstation > because it's setup just the way he likes it and it works for him. > > He does not have the time to spare both from work/coding and his > personal life to spend hours to setup his system or constantly having to > upgrade/re-install fighting and patching whatever nuance that release > brings, distracting him from doing actual real work and says that's for > GNU/Linux kids, he rather spend that time with his grankids. > > His upgrade cycle is tied to the life cycle of his hw... He should have chosen to install RHEL/CentOS/etc... then. Staying on F9 as a developer is a questionable stance. Your machine is full of security issues and you could be compromised and become a proxy to compromise the projects you are working on. If you choose to stay on an older machine you should at least install an OS that gets security updates for a lot longer. Simo. -- Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
