ESR: Goodbye Fedora

[Res]

On Thu, 22 Feb 2007, M. Fioretti wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 09:59:03 AM +1000, Res (res at ausics.net) wrote:
>
>> Maybe :), but he has a couple things I agree with, RH/Fedora is losing
>> ground on desktop share, because people want things to just work,
>

> "things to just work" and "bleeding edge by design" just cannot mix,

They can, there is no reason at all, lets say a media player software 
wont, well unless you bastardise it like Fedora does, once you start 
ommitting parts of the authors original known working code, you no longer 
have a working guarantee.

> In this sense yes, Fedora is not, can not, and does not want to be the first
> distribution for Windows refugees.

Correct, unlike RedHat X.XX days. This is why Fedora has lost a very 
significant hold of desktop.


>> Secondly, the version upgrade is messy
>
> This I cannot comment on. I've always installed each version from
> scratch, because of all the horror upgrade stories I've been reading
> (for any distro...) since the 90's...

I've had no problems in the 90's with slackware, since 2.0 at least.
though yes it was alot harder back in those days.


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Cheers
Res

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