<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 2:31 PM, Les Mikesell <<a href="mailto:lesmikesell@gmail.com">lesmikesell@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">max bianco wrote:<br>
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> am I the only person that voluntarily uses Fedora? I have only been<br>
> using it a short time but i understood it was a moving target when i<br>
> signed on. This thread reminds me of KL. It wasn't that long ago so i<br>
> am sure most of you remember to whom i am referring.<br>
> Fedora is what it is and some have more experience than others. Is there<br>
> some other lesson to take away from this thread?<br>
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</div>Fedora tries to stay very close to current software development. That<br>
means you get the new features as well as the new bugs. On a desktop or<br>
as a second, non-critical machine that is a reasonable tradeoff,<br>
especially if you use the applications where the new features matter.<br>
This thread is mostly about servers where downtime is to be avoided at<br>
(almost) any cost and you want things to keep working for years. It<br>
isn't about fedora being inherently bad, it just isn't suitable for some<br>
uses.<br>
<font color="#888888"><br></font></blockquote><div><br>I know it isn't suitable for some uses. I tried to learn what I could about Fedora before I actually installed it on my machine. It seems however that some people have unrealistic expectations. The bleeding edge and stable are not words i would expect to fit into the same sentence under any circumstances. Having said that it has been very stable for me, and by stable i mean that it has never failed to boot, have i had issues? Sure but the basic functionality has always been there for me. Maybe some features break from time to time but i have always been able to access the web to solve my problems, would i use it for a server? maybe but I'd not have much room to complain if I tried to ride the bleeding edge and fell off the cliff because of it.<br>
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