On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 8:38 AM, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203(a)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.
--
Jeff Ollie
"You know, I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then
I thought, wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the
terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve
them? So, now I take great comfort in the general hostility and
unfairness of the universe."
-- Marcus to Franklin in Babylon 5: "A Late Delivery from Avalon"