On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 9:35 AM, Patrice Dumas <pertusus(a)free.fr> wrote:
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 05:10:29PM +0200, Matej Cepl wrote:
> On 2008-10-10, 14:36 GMT, Dmitry Butskoy wrote:
> > What should do some previously RedHat-oriented enthusiast, when
> > all the area for application of his enthusiasm is some
> > "production environment"? Use RHEL/CentOS anywhere and Fedora
> > on his laptop only? But RHEL/CentOS is far from the "bleeding
> > edge", hence his enthusiasm just disappear...
>
> Think about that and repeat until you get it -- "distro is either
> bleeding-edge or stable; tercium non datur".
It is a bit more complicated. A distro may begin its life bleeding edge
and become stable as time goes by, if it is still maintained. And a
stable distro may have parts that are bleeding-edge. This is not
necessarily easy to implement, but these scenarios certainly have
merits.
It can only become stable if you have people focus on things and not
look at new stuff. And usually it requires resources that are
expensive.
--
Stephen J Smoogen. -- BSD/GNU/Linux
How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed
in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice"