Ooops, we made Linus leave : (choices and punishment)

[Eli Wapniarski]

On Tuesday 27 January 2009 03:02:53 Martin Kho wrote:
> On Sunday 25 January 2009 06:28:35 Eli Wapniarski wrote:
> > Why is Fedora partially to blame. It has been plagued with, IMHO, with a
> > bad case of jump on the "latest must be greatest" bandwagon and releasing
> > as final, software that is clearly not ready for prime time. The latest
> > round of this started with Fedora 9 and Xorg 1.5 BETA. KDE 4. And this
> > group think problem has on and off plagued  Redhat releases since version
> > 8. If the software isn't ready then it isn't ready.
>
> In the early days when Fedora still was Redhat - I'm speaking of Redhat 4.x
> - there was a unspoken rule that uneven number versions were unstable and
> even stable. Compare this with the kernel development in the old days. I
> ever used the stable versions :-) With Fedora the sub-numbering was gone.
> Maybe now we have it back. Fedora 9 unstable, Fedora 10 stable. What will
> bring Fedora 11?
>
> P.S. EOL of Fedora 8 is less then a month - 2009-01-07 - ago and we now
> have a very stable KDE desktop IMHO.
>

That's a good option also. But Fedora would need to ensure that updating 
between stable version with Yum or Apt works. A lot of us rely on 3rd party 
repos as well.

Eli

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