how bleeding edge will the next fedora release be?

[Preston Crawford]

----- Original Message -----
From: Scott Burch
Sent: 12/10/2003 3:34:13 PM
To: fedora-list at redhat.com
Subject: Re: how bleeding edge will the next fedora release be?

> IMHO if you are expert enough to deal with the issues on the bleeding
> edge, then you are expert enough to download and install it yourself.  A
> distribution is a collection of software, OS and libraries put together
> to make installation and operation easy for the new user.  
> 
> Seems a paradox to put bleeding-edge and unstable distributions together
> to make things 'easier'.  The distribution would not be good for the new
> people, and people expert enough to run it, don't need everything put
> into a distribution. 

Totally. Either way it's irrellevant as YUM and APT-GET allow people to track unstable and testing packages if they really want to be on the testing/bleeding edge. So there's no point in making the default Fedora core bleeding edge, other than to get some of us to start looking for another distro.

Preston