[Fwd: Wikipidia - Goodbye Red Hat and Fedora]

[Patrice Dumas]

On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 05:10:29PM +0200, Matej Cepl wrote:
> On 2008-10-10, 14:36 GMT, Dmitry Butskoy wrote:
> > What should do some previously RedHat-oriented enthusiast, when 
> > all the area for application of his enthusiasm is some 
> > "production environment"?  Use RHEL/CentOS anywhere and Fedora 
> > on his laptop only? But RHEL/CentOS is far from the "bleeding 
> > edge", hence his enthusiasm just disappear...
> 
> Think about that and repeat until you get it -- "distro is either 
> bleeding-edge or stable; tercium non datur".

It is a bit more complicated. A distro may begin its life bleeding edge
and become stable as time goes by, if it is still maintained. And a
stable distro may have parts that are bleeding-edge. This is not
necessarily easy to implement, but these scenarios certainly have
merits.

--
Pat