Leaving?

[Thomas M Steenholdt]

edwardsa wrote:
> Sorry to butt in here. I have spent a lot of time using Debian and a
> litte using FC. In Debian stable means stable. You don't screw around
> with the distribution to make it look cool(er) or even to add
> capabilities. It's a promise to the community that you can use this
> without fear of finding an update breaks things. In the Debian distro, 
> if you want newer things, you use testing. I realize that FC tries to
> move new relases of, say, KDE, gnome, and xorg into their stable distribution 
> more quickly, so stability is less sachrosanct. At the same time, the
> Debian community may be even less sympathetic to third party binary
> complaints. However, I think that the disregard of third-party codes is
> actually short-sighted. As Linux becomes more widely accepted, it will
> encounter more third-party codes. More users will get the attention of
> commercial software vendors so that there will be more available. Only
> if linux would like to remain a hobbyist's OS would it ignore this
> problem. I'm not claiming that there is an easy solution. One of the
> great advantages of linux, that it is not monolithic, is also one of its 
> greatest obstacles when dealing with commercial vendors. I don't know how 
> the governing bodies of various distro's will choose to deal with this,
> but arrogance would be a poor choice.
> 
Fedora is a free, open source, rapidly moving distribution. If you need 
ABI stability - there ae other distros that may serve your need better?

This is by choice!

/Thomas