On Fri, 2008-10-10 at 12:38 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
Dmitry Butskoy wrote:
> Itamar - IspBrasil wrote:
>>
>> any chance to increase the life of fedora releases ?
>>
>> or fedora will be only blending edge ?
>>
>> In my opinion fedora is losing space from centos and ubuntu
>
> ...
>
>> The brazilian government, one of the biggest Fedora Case of the world is
>> changing from Fedora/ Red Hat to Ubuntu/Debian.
>
> The problem was at an initial point, when Fedora was considered "for
> enthusiasts only". A lot of previous "RedHat Linux enthusiasts" just
> switch to CentOS (and similar RHEL-based systems), no more using Fedora,
> because "it is marked as a non-for-production system even by its
creators".
>
The fact that they switched to CentOS is *good* for Fedora.
I can not disagree
more - To me, it's yet another evidence of Fedora
being on the loose.
CentOS's
goals are better oriented to the needs of someone that wants to deploy a
system and run it for years. Fedora is good for people who want to get
the latest technologies from upstream as soon as they're stable enough
to integrate into a running system.
Right. But why can't Fedora do better? I
feel Fedora could do better.
> This situation seems to be reflected in the Fedora project
itself.
> Guess, how many Fedora infrastructure servers are run under the latest
> "stable" Fedora release?
As few as possible.
IMO, a fundamental management/infrastructure mistake - If these
people
were using Fedora, they would be facing the issues Fedora users are
facing everyday and likely would being to understand why people complain
about Fedora.
The reason is not about stability. It is about
updates. Once Fedora stops getting updates we'd have to upgrade to the
next Fedora release with all of the churn that causes for vastly
unrelated pieces of the OS.
Gotcha! If not even the Fedora project can handle the
issues, why do you
expect users to be able to solve them? I think technically the issues
can be overcome. It's a matter of will.
Ralf