On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, William Hooper wrote:
Sam Barnett-Cormack said:
> Given the track record with redhat of how often upgrades go wrong,
The upgrade on my laptop from RHL9 to FC1 went completely without problems.
> and
> the fact that such an upgrade requires more downtime, I think a lot of
> people will worry about that.
I would prefer more planned downtime than the downtime that comes from
breaking something. All upgrades will require downtime, some more than
others. As I said in a previous post, trying to get a distro to upgrade
through yum, etc. isn't a bad thing, just as long as people understand
that it may not be possible in some cases (like FC1 -> FC2 IMHO). APIs,
config files, library versions change, and trying to change these while
you are using them can cause Bad Things (tm).
Your points are well made and valid - I suppose some things are a matter
of taste, although those points you make seem to not affect other
distros already using the rolling model.
> Is fedora there to provide a good distro to users, or to exploit
users
> to redhat's commercial benefit?
You'll have to pardon me for not looking over my shoulder for the black
heliocopters...
Fedora IS the community. So the community is there to provide a good
distro to the community. You would probably do well to get over the "I'm
a user, Fedora owes me..." mentality.
I far from think that, I apologise for any offence I may have caused the
developers.
However, I stand by my point that the part of the community doing the
development does need to listen to the wishes of the users.
--
Sam Barnett-Cormack
Software Developer | Student of Physics & Maths
UK Mirror Service (
http://www.mirror.ac.uk) | Lancaster University