Fedora reliability

[Chris A Czerwinski]

On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 07:57, Andy Green wrote:
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> On Tuesday 25 November 2003 20:28, Preston Crawford wrote:
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> > > > >     a STABLE version area - for adopters and
> 
> > Can't comment on what Emmanuel is saying. Unless he's working for Red Hat
> > and trying to push Enterprise and WS, I don't know if what he says has
> > validity. Fedora seems really good to me. As good as, if not better than 9
> 
> People mean two different things with 'Stable' :
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> 1) Works reliably and does not crash.  Fedora definitely deserves to be called 
> this kind of stable, its more stable for me than RH9 and I would recommend it 
> to anyone coming from Windows.
> 
> 2) Is not undergoing rapid changes.  Fedora releases are meant to be every six 
> months, I don't know what the security patch lifetime is going to be, 
> probably the same six months.   Enterprise has a longer cycle, 18 month 
> security patch coverage I think?  Whatever the actual numbers, the point is 
> this is the 'stability' which Enterprise has that Fedora lacks.  For shops 
> with many users this kind of stability can easily be worth the money RH is 
> asking.
> 
> In the manner of 'free as in beer' ... I suggest 'Stable as in crashproof' and 
> 'Stable as in lifetime' to differentiate between the two kinds.
> 
> - -Andy

Thanks Andy,

Now that's an answer that I appreciate, it has an explanation with meat.
I now have a better sense and feeling to Fedora.

Would you know when the next release might be? I do hope it will be
before April 2004 just when Red Hat finishes with RH9? Isn't timing
great. That's when I will/should make my move/upgrade after the kinks
have been ironed out with FC1 and possibly the starting of FC2, as there
may be an enormous demand for downloads. Hope there will be no funny
stuff that you need to FC1 or its' dependencies to upgrade to FC2.

As they say ...
   "It's better the second time around and keeps getting better."

chris cz


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