Fedora 9: Leading edge or bleeding edge?

[Rahul Sundaram]

Hi,

Pretty interesting article. Take a look.

http://www.linux.com/feature/135685

Conclusion:

"Aside from the problems with PackageKit -- and, to a lesser extent, the 
inclusion of KDE 4.0.3 -- Fedora 9 manages to balance innovation with a 
high degree of usability. Over the last few months, Fedora has been 
increasingly compared favorably with Ubuntu on both accounts, and, to a 
large extent, it deserves this praise. If anything, it has probably 
exceeded Ubuntu in innovation, with at least a dozen major new ideas in 
every release. It is a rare release, too, in which Fedora's menus and 
dialog do not show minor tinkering to fine-tune the user experience.

Yet the problems in Fedora 9 emphasize how difficult a balance the 
Fedora project tries to maintain. The fact that improvements are coming 
for both KDE and PackageKit, and that, meanwhile, workarounds exist, is 
beside the point -- these facts are lucky accidents, and nothing that 
Fedora has done.

Although Fedora's innovations make it one of the more interesting 
distributions to use and watch these days, the project needs to temper 
its creativity with more consideration of how changes affect users. 
Perhaps these relatively minor problems will help the distribution 
correct its release policies before a major disaster happens in a future 
release."

Rahul