Thomas M Steenholdt <tmus(a)tmus.dk> writes:
I've heard mention so many times, that it's a problem, people
don't
see Fedora as a serious distribution for non-desktop/-testing use. I
think that this is exactly the problem.
I don't think so. It's a problem with their vision, Fedora is a serious
distro for almost any use if you don't need paid support. And if you
need then Fedora alone isn't for you, it's that simple (I'm sure
you can buy support for Fedora, though).
We want to be bleeding edge,
definitely
but at the same time it would be nice if an installed version could
be
trusted to not break too often because of updates.
Does it break too often? Not for me. Yes, something sometimes break
but one thing once a ~ year is IMHO acceptable, and I wouldn't expect
lower ratio from any distribution, no vendor can test everything
* everything matrix.
This is why I suggested an more stable (in terms of changes) LTS
spin,
perhaps, for every 2-4 normal Fedora releases, to provide a Fedora
that could actually be used in these situations.
So you don't want bleeding edge -> GOTO RHEL, SLES, Fedora legacy,
Debian stable etc.
I also realize that providing such a release would be
very much like RHEL and CentOS, but I got the impression that we were
starting to open up and become more than the fast-rolling testbed
distro that will be snapshot and stabilized into RHEL,
I never considered Fedora snapshot or a testbed. It's just bleeding
edge - you have newest versions, no need to compile them yourself,
it's just less work. Bugs and breakage? Happens with self-compiled
software, too (perhaps more frequently due to user's errors).
in which case
something like this could help us to reach more users/uses for Fedora.
I'm afraid Fedora can't be bleeding edge and not bleeding edge
simultaneously.
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Krzysztof Halasa