Adieu, Fedora

[James McKenzie]

On 6/12/11 7:20 PM, JD wrote:
> On 06/12/2011 03:08 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote:
>> It's been a nice ride these past 7 years with Fedora as my primary OS, but it's time to move on.  My current and future needs are for a support life measured in years, not months.  And CentOS and Scientific Linux didn't fulfill my other requirements.  Neither did the Rolling Release distros:  At some point, support for older hardware must be dropped to make way for new, and the old system "breaks."  I can't have that.
>>
>> So, with the release of 15 (I'm still using 12), which would have traditionally been my next upgrade, my decision was finalized.  GNOME 3 was really what did it.  After using it for a while to get familiar with it, I decided I just didn't like it.  And KDE is still a resource gluten--the primary reason I left it years ago.  Considered XFCE and LXDE instead, but decided the best option was to abandon the Desktop GUI environment all-together in favor of a well-featured window manager, simple launch bar for most used apps, floating menus for the others, and a terminal or two.  I don't really need all the other crap.  Not even 3D.
>>
>> My primary choice is Debian 6, 64-bit, and Openbox.  I've been testing both in VirtualBox for a few months.  So far, so good.
>>
>> I'll still keep an eye on Fedora for old time's sake.  And 12 will stay on the system as a back up.  So, it's not exactly farewell, just . . .
>>
>> Auf Wiedersehen,
>>
>> B
> As was stated in a recent response on this list, Fedora is always in
> test mode, so
> will always change rapidly.
>
> You will find that Debian uses very old releases of kernel and user apps
> and libs,
> thus much of the new advances are not available for it from it's vanilla
> repos.
> Also, if you are looking for support over many years, are you sure that
> it is actively
> supported and new bugs fixed in this release version you have chosen?
>
>
Squeeze (Debian six) was just recently released and they still support 
Debian four.  Much like RedHat has a ten year policy that they will 
support.  RedHat is still supporting RHEL 4 for some companies that 
cannot or will not move to RH 5.

James McKenzie