reviving Fedora Legacy

[Les Mikesell]

Ralph Angenendt wrote:
> Les Mikesell wrote:
>> Then no one should be surprised at the migration to Ubuntu and other  
>> distributions that have a more orderly transition from version to 
>> version.
> 
> Which problem do you have with the transition from Fedora x to Fedora
> x+1?

Massive breakage...  Compatibility with the jpackage repo would be one 
example.  Keeping a mod_perl program working with apache/perl version 
changes would be another.  Database version changes.  Basically any API 
change anywhere is likely to break local programming as well as 3rd 
party repo usability, and Fedora changes wildly between versions.  But 
more to the point, no version of Fedora is  suitable for production use. 
  For example, long after a stable, reliable kernel was available in 
RHEL5 and Centos, FC6 shipped an update kernel that crashed on a variety 
of scsi controllers.  The nature of the project is just such that 
sufficient QA is never going to happen.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com