What Fedora makes sucking for me - or why I am NOT Fedora

Chuck Anderson cra at WPI.EDU
Fri Dec 12 02:35:01 UTC 2008


On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 03:28:05AM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Jesse Keating wrote:
> > With the 6 month cycle of Fedora, and our willingness to break things
> > like crazy in the rawhide world, we're still a very very fast distro and
> > unique in the distro space for early adoption of software.
> 
> But it is not enough. The updates are an important part of that. When
> Kubuntu released Intrepid, Fedora 9 already had the same version of KDE
> (4.1.2) despite having been released 6 months earlier. How was this
> possible? Thanks to the updates of course! It's similar for the kernel and
> other packages whose maintainers push new versions regularly.

On the other hand, having every other kernel update break either 
wireless or suspend/hibernate sucks too.




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