On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 8:38 AM, Ralf Corsepius rc040203@freenet.de wrote:
True, at the time RHEL5 was new, it had been more or less a rebuilt FC5/6 and switching between them had not been a major problem.
Nowadays, it isn't anymore and even will be less when FC10 comes out.
I.e. to today's FC7 or FC8 users, RHEL5 or CentOS5 are not viable alternatives. They are kind of a flashback to yesterday's state-of-art.
Well, DUH!
Long term stability is achieved by *NOT ADDING NEW FEATURES*. *ADDING NEW FEATURES INTRODUCES NEW BUGS* *YOU CAN'T HAVE YOUR CAKE AND EAT IT TOO*
Sorry for shouting, but all of these people demanding a "Fedora LTS" don't seem to get this fundamental point.
I mean really, if RHEL5 switched from KDE3.5 to KDE4.0 I'd be screaming bloody murder. Or even from BIND 9.3 to BIND 9.5. Or whatever.