Matthew Woehlke wrote:
I'd expect most people who install fedora themselves to have at
least a couple of other OS's running concurrently. Has anyone done
a poll about this recently?
Why would you expect that?
Because it is experimental and high maintenance to run.
I beg to differ. Building KDE from trunk, now /that's/ "experimental and
high maintenance", and even that not so much. The only problem I've had
with Fedora 8/9 is the cr*p nvidia drivers don't work quite right on my
setup, and that's hardly Fedora's fault.
It is fedora's fault that their policy makes it difficult for you to run
vendor drivers. But I think you've been lucky with very common hardware
or maybe there's been a lull in the serious breakage. I gave up when an
update late in the FC6 cycle which should have been stabilized by then
and didn't need disruptive changes failed to boot from scsi on a fairly
common dell box.
Maintenance... sure, I run 'yum update' every few days, big deal :-).
I don't mind running the update - it's when things don't work afterwards
or a remote machine doesn't come back after a reboot that is the problem.
Most of the Fedora-related headaches I run into are from needing a newer
package than what's in the official updates due to a requirement in
KDE's trunk (like cmake 2.6.2, which I'm hoping will get pushed through
before it becomes a hard requirement in a few weeks).
Throw in a few of the third party repositories that you need to deal
with the policy and legal restrictions on what fedora provides and
things get even more problematic.
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