Fedora philosophy (was ATI video comes out of the closet)

[Les Mikesell]

Ric Moore wrote:
> 
> Exactly, very well put. I think the point I made that Fedora could work
> more on stability, user friendliness is Les's point. Slowing the pace
> down a bit would not be a bad thing, especially if the release could be
> beta tested and de-bugged more fully for the sake of both camps of
> users, the gear-heads and the people that would rather just use their
> computers as a viable tool. I'm in the latter camp and make no apologies
> for it. I've had to wrestle with xine at least 5 time in two years to
> make it do what it did successfully, before some update broke it. 

I'm not asking for a general slowdown, just a split between things that 
will likely crash the machine when you change them and things that 
won't, which generally is the kernel/userland split, and no new kernel 
features should be attempted within a distro version's life - which is 
pretty quick in fedora anyway.

Personally I think it was a mistake for any distribution to ship the 2.6 
kernel before an experimental 2.7 branch was started to keep the 
breakage away from their users - hence the bulk of my servers are still 
running a 2.4 kernel.  Now that they have, Linus thinks its fine to try 
wild changes in what people are trying to use in production.


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   Les Mikesell
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