On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 13:28 -0300, Horst H. von Brand wrote: > Ralf Corsepius <rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 10:50 -0500, Jesse Keating wrote: > > [...] > > > > What earthly reason would you have to run some old code set, with not > > > even close to guaranteed updates, let alone timely ones, with little > > > man power behind it, and the opportunity to be ignored by most package > > > owners? > > > Because that's still better and more effective than getting lost in the > > Fedora upgrade maelstrom > > OK, that can be an issue. Note: Upgrade, not update! The experience of upgrading from FC7 to FC8 had not been pleasant :/ > > and getting lost in the bureaucracy Fedora > > suffers from > > Examples? Suggestions to streamline? > > > and better than continuing to use a completely discontinued > > distro. > > CentOS isn't "completely discontinued"... I realize, some mails from me seem to be stuck in RH's spam filter :/ I have been proposing to extend the life-time of discontinued Fedora's on completely open and free, volunteered basis (similar to what Legacy once did). > > > And why aren't those reasons satisfied with RHEL/CentOS which doesn't > > > have these problems? > > > For me, CentOS is an ultra conservative, stagnating distro not meeting > > my demands. It may-be suitable for those who want to set up a server and > > run it with minimal support for the next 4 years - To me it's non > > interesting. > > So you want bleeding-edge packages, ultra-conservative distribution > version? No, I want a middle ground: E.g. the status quo of FC7 with the bug fixes from FC8+, but without the bugs and warts FC8 is currently suffering from. Or simpler: ATM, I can't recommend upgrading to FC8 to anybody. Upgrading to it is premature. Wait until FC9 is out, may-be then FC8 has become sufficiently usable. > Perhaps Debian unstable, with its rolling updates (and never, ever a new > version) is what you are looking for? If Debian was rpm-based, I probably would have switched to it long time ago ;) Ralf -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
