Where Fedora Went Wrong (nice conclusion)

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 11:34:45 -0400,
  Ric Moore <wayward4now at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 21:45 +0100, David Fletcher wrote:
> 
> After all, this crate is close to the bleeding edge, so a couple of
> burps in the barrel during an upgrade can become a huge problem. It's
> predictable, it computes and it happens. To then run off to complain
> about a broken system which becomes magically "fixed" by a clean install
> to another distro is just this side of lame. To know that the majority
> of these users head to Ubuntu is enough to keep me here, where the
> majority of the users left here are clearly clicking on all cylinders.

Except that doing clean installs is a real pain. One of the high priority
future goals of Fedora should be to make upgrades work well. Besides
making upgrading less work, this also mitigates concerns about the relatively
short life span of Fedora versions.