reviving Fedora Legacy

[Chris Weyl]

On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 5:47 PM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 02:17:01PM -0700, Chris Weyl wrote:
>>> I know about users for which Centos/RHEL is not right because it is too
>>> old, fedora would suit them, if they had not to upgrade after one year.
>>> Currently I have to propose them to install ubuntu, because there is
>>> nothing in the fedora/RHEL market that suits them. Not enough power user
>>> for fedora updates every year, need too recent stuff for RHEL. Another
>>> category who be those who want to use a controlled set of next
>>> technology preview in production environment and are willing to do some
>>> testing and help with bugs, hence would have choosen fedora, but cannot
>>> if they have to update each year.
>>
>>On this point, I know I tend to be pretty liberal with my personal
>>machines (and tend to keep them at the latest !rawhide), but for my
>>work laptop, while I run Fedora for a variety of reasons, I tend to be
>>pretty conservative and upgrade to the latest only when forced to by
>>distro EOL or some other compelling reason.  A LTS plan would make
>>sense for reasonable situations like this.
>
> No, it wouldn't.
>
> (I know you know that I know what you know so you should know what
> I know and I know there are other options and I know that you know
> that.)

I know :)  But, along those lines you know it's not that clear cut... ya know?

But this isn't really about other options, whether they be centos/rhel
or ubuntu/debian or slackware or gentoo, this is about people who
choose to use Fedora.  What does it say about freedom, when we say
"Use Fedora and be free! ...except, you know, how you want to."  Why
are we spending so much time and effort saying no, instead of getting
out of the way of those who are interested in doing it and watching it
succeed or fail on its merits?

                                  -Chris
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Chris Weyl
Ex astris, scientia