Why Fedora ?

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 10:57 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
> Rudolf Kastl wrote:
> > from a developers point of view it doesent matter much what you use...
> 
>  From a developer? Of Linux? Or of Linux software?
> 
> I disagree with this statement entirely. Fedora Core is not a
> stable release. For that reason, IMO, it is unsuitable for
> doing stable software development.

And I have to disagree on this.

To me, Fedora is the right compromise between "stagnation" and "bleeding
edge". It's the right mixture, I need for my work, application
development.

>  OTOH, if one is designing
> commercial software, and wants a test machine or two set up
> the way one projects the world will be when the software is
> ready for release, then one probably needs to have something
> like Fedora core on those test machines.

Application developers often work the other way round:
 
They use a distro like Fedora for development, to be prepared for the
"status-quo" at the point in time, when a SW will be ready for release.

> > if you identify and report/fix bugs _upstream_ you are fixing the
> > stuff for all distros...
> 
> For all *RHEL* distros.
... and for Fedora.

> > theres no such thing as "distro wars" with experienced linux users and
> > real open source developers. you seem to be rather new to the world of
> > linux.
> 
> Oh yes there are "distro wars".
... Rudolf was referring to "experienced users and real open source
developers" ... I do agree with him.

Ralf
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