Gerald Henriksen wrote:
On Wed, 26 Jul 2006 13:37:22 -0400, you wrote:
On Wednesday 26 July 2006 13:30, Denis Leroy wrote:
This goes beyond binary-only drivers. What if you were using FC-5 as a
major development platform for your own Xorg-based application (or
gnome, or kde), then an FC-5 update breaks your code in a major way...
And you really shouldn't be using a Fedora release as a Major Development
Platform. That's not what Fedora is designed and meant to be. That's a far
better job for RHEL where you've got promised ABI/API stability, a very long
lifespan, and a lot of effort to ensure things don't change with the updates.
Fedora is a more free flowing tool for evaluating technology, where things
can and do churn, change, and sometimes break.
So does this mean objective number 4 should be removed from the
Objectives of the Fedora Project page?
"Provide a robust development platform for building software,
particularly open source software."
http://fedora.redhat.com/about/objectives.html
3rd party hardware vendors' proprietary video drivers are not open
source software.
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Mike A. Harris * Open Source Advocate * http://mharris.ca
Proud Canadian.
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