Wanna give me a hand debunking this?

[Les Mikesell]

Jeff Spaleta wrote:

>> Are there plans to add the things that would most likely to be needed -
>> the popular desktop packages like OpenOffice, Firefox, Evolution,
>> Thunderbird, etc. in the versions that fedora is shipping?
> 
> If you want consistent hot newness.. you use Fedora the distribution
> and you deal with the release lifetime issue accordingly based on your
> local policy, resources and needs.  If you need maintenance timescales
> then you sacrifice getting consistent access to hot newness and you
> choose CentOS or RHEL because they give you longer term support and
> thus reduce your local resource needs over a multiple year timescale.
> 
> Its a trade off and you must choose which distribution offering meets
> your needs best.  If neither fits well, then I would suggest you
> consider segregating your needs locally into critical services and
> user desktop/workstation so that you can more easily track Fedora the
> distribution for user-facing new hotness while keeping critical
> production services on slower moving RHEL or CentOS.

That part is obvious.  The part that is missing is a distribution that 
fits for desktops.  I don't ever want my devices to get new names _ever_ 
once a system is installed and working, desktop or not - for the life of 
the machine.  If it is working reasonably well, I'm not particularly 
interested in anything but bugfix updates to device drivers and the 
kernel because there's a fair chance that anything else will completely 
break things.  On the other hand, desktop apps aren't really done yet so 
there are good reasons to want to run the latest versions - and if there 
are bugs they still won't crash the machine.  I suppose you could, for 
short periods of time, disable kernel updates in fedora, but then you 
don't get even the bugfixes which seems like a really bad idea.

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   Les Mikesell
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