Why Fedora ?

[David-Paul Niner]

Josh Coffman wrote:

>--- Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net> wrote:
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>>On Friday 28 October 2005 11:57, Mike McCarty wrote:
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>>>Rudolf Kastl wrote:
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>>>>from a developers point of view it doesent matter
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>>much what you
>>use...
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>>>From a developer? Of Linux? Or of Linux software?
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>>>I disagree with this statement entirely. Fedora
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>>Core is not a
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>>>stable release. For that reason, IMO, it is
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>>unsuitable for
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>>>doing stable software development. OTOH, if one is
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>>designing
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>>>commercial software, and wants a test machine or
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>>two set up
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>>>the way one projects the world will be when the
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>>software is
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>>>ready for release, then one probably needs to have
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>>something
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>>>like Fedora core on those test machines.
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>>And I disagree violently with that premise.  Not
>>everyone has the
>>luxury of haveing a ready test mule, one that can be
>>broken for
>>extended periods of time while problems are worked
>>out.  We do use
>>these machines in our everyday life.
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>>If I can't have a reasonable expectation of doing an
>>upgrade and having
>>it continue to work for the things that are
>>important to me, then those
>>cd's I download and burn will never get anywhere
>>near the drive at
>>reboot time.  The recent 4.0 release and its
>>nightmares is a case in
>>point. There is absolutely no excuse for such a
>>broken install that
>>takes a week for a guru to straighten out and a gig
>>of downloads to fix
>>stuff that should have been fixed in the release
>>before the release was
>>ever seeded to the servers.
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>>>>if you identify and report/fix bugs _upstream_
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>>you are fixing the
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>>>>stuff for all distros...
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>>>For all *RHEL* distros.
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>>>>theres no such thing as "distro wars" with
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>>experienced linux users
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>>>>real open source developers. you seem to be
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>>rather new to the world
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>>>>linux.
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>>>Oh yes there are "distro wars". I just don't
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>>participate in 'em.
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>>>>also for me personally fc4 is too stable and thus
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>>pretty boring for
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>>>>someone who likes to be a bit more active with
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>>the linux community.
>>;)
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>>>>i am personally helping testing rawhide because i
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>>like to have a bit
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>>>>more challange and i love helping to make future
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>>versions better.
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>>>Please don't top post.
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>>>Mike
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>>Cheers, Gene
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>Hmm... Well, I'll answer the topic question.
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>I tried lots of distro's in my search for a windows
>replacement this summer. I happened to like Debian and
>Apt. Loved SimplyMepis, but it became pretty clear to
>me that I was going to have to learn how to make
>somethings work. (When I say lots of distros... I
>think my laptop is 1/2 pound lighter from the hard
>drive grinding...)
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>I wanted something fast, free, relatively complete but
>not really bloated, and optionally bleeding-edge.
>Fedora fit the bill for me. And the community has
>REALLY helped me to learn and make things work.
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>Although I'm curious about other new releases, I'd
>still probably pick Fedora because:
>- it's stable (clean installs)
>- easy to update
>- good performance (easy to tweak to be really fast)
>- free
>- great community
>- i know it (somewhat)
>- learned skills are portable to companies that use
>Red Hat.
>- on my desktop, it just works. no fuss.
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In summary (if I may): Perhaps the original poster should realize that 
trying to drum up support for a mass exodus away from a particular 
product on a mailing list designed to support said product is 
anti-productive, and not likely to be very effective.

It does seem as those the poster made a few worthwhile comments, 
however, and this community being what it is, I'm certain they will 
given due diligence.

David-Paul Niner, RHCE




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