WHY I WANT TO STOP USING FEDORA!!!

Javier Perez pepebuho at gmail.com
Thu Feb 12 17:26:37 UTC 2009


This thread is still going on strong?

On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Robin Laing
<Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca>wrote:

> Mike Chalmers wrote:
>
>> I do not understand how Fedora expects you to upgrade or reinstall
>> every 6 months or so.
>>
>> This is just not right.
>>
>> Should a distro keep continuing to make you install every six months,
>> if so, I would rather use Microsoft. Why not provide updates, major
>> ones, to the already installed OS instead of having to reinstall a new
>> OS!!! I imagine that this, if done in an organized way, could be
>> easier on the developers of Fedora.
>>
>> INSTEAD OF MAKING CONSUMERS INSTALL EVERY SIX MONTHS OR UNTIL THE
>> UPDATES STOP, JUST PROVIDE LARGE UPDATES THAT UPGRADE A SYSTEM WITHOUT
>> HAVING TO DO A COMPLETELY NEW INSTALL???
>>
>> THEN YOU WILL HAVE A LARGER FAN BASE AND A MORE STABLE OS!!!
>>
>>
> I have not read the whole thread yet but I don't update every six months.
>  My home systems were running Fedora 7 until I moved to 10. That is over a
> year.
>
> I know people that are still running FC4.
>
> There are other versions of Linux out there that offer long life just as
> Centos does.
>
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