Mark
Be happy with your eventual choice. When some software is imposed, one is often negative, but when one chooses, then one is happy, and the complaints are about bugs. I am sure that your choice is as bug free as is Fedora, or perhaps even more, given your explanation.
Regards and thank you for I guess is the longest thread in Fedora-list. :)
Leslie
--- On Mon, 2/9/09, Mark Haney mhaney@ercbroadband.org wrote:
From: Mark Haney mhaney@ercbroadband.org Subject: Re: WHY I WANT TO STOP USING FEDORA!!! To: "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora." fedora-list@redhat.com Date: Monday, February 9, 2009, 4:14 PM
Mike Chalmers wrote:
As I said above I am sorry for the initial RANT. Thank you to all for your patience and help.
I have been looking into ARCH, which someone, mentioned above, and I think their philosophy towards Linux is, quite good, a rolling release. It is harder to work with initially seeing as it does not have a graphical install process. It is a minimal installation, which I like, and you install only what you want after the minimal installation. It also releases the latest packages usually in 1 day or 2. Didn't know that there was a distro like ARCH.
For the question above, I do like to stay up to date, and the GUI matters a pretty good bit to me. I love the changes that KDE made, with their GUI, when they went to 4 and now to 4.2!
I have to throw my 2 cents worth in. I have to agree that doing a full upgrade every 6-8 months gets tiresome when you have a dozen or so machines running it. However, preupgrade does seem to help that a lot and it's getting better with oddball setups like some I have.
That said, rolling updates are the way to go. No need for continual upgrades to 'releases' just update to the latest version of a package and be done with it. I'm just not sure a 'major release' design is the way to go any longer. With internet access the way it is, why not just do rolling updates?
Personally this is why I use gentoo more and more. No need to download an ISO or anything of the sort, just switch to a new profile, update the needed packages and you are at the latest 'release'. Then, update packages as they are released as stable. (or as ~arch in the gentoo world).
Nothing else makes as much sense to me in the open source world that isn't a 'paid' or 'enterprise' edition.