Re: Rolling release model philosophy (was Re: Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule (was Re: f18: how to install into a LVM partitions (or RAID)))
On Fri, 02 Nov 2012 13:22:21 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
I disagree. It's usable by the kind of people who use Fedora. Who
like
shiny cutting-edge stuff and don't mind dealing with wonkiness
constantly. I wouldn't dream of putting any regular person on a Fedora
install, quite frankly. It's easy to get into a perspective bubble where
Fedora looks normal, but it isn't. It is not a stable general-purpose
operating system and it's absurd to represent it as such. I wouldn't put
Fedora 17 on my uncle Bob's computer (I don't have an uncle Bob, this is
just your hackneyed old 'regular person' example) and say 'there's your
computer'. How many of us would? Even if you get a good Fedora release
Completely agree with Adam ... I was working on the solution for my
family (both my wife and kids are on Linux, of course). After having my
wife on Fedora for some time and listening to her constant complaints
about awful amount of updates she doesn't care for and doesn't want to
have installed all the time (BTW, could somebody fix PackageKit updates
so that it actually can keep system updated for a long period of time
without needed intervention on the command line from time to time?). In
the end I have switched her to CentOS+EPEL+some-rpmfusion-packages-which-
were-not-avaliable and she is a very happy lady. Updates are reasonable
and system will hopefully hold together for a long time.
Best,
Matěj