Fedora 18, future isn't too good as it seems :-<

[Bill Davidsen]

Ian Malone wrote:
> On 1 November 2012 03:55, Junayeed Ahnaf <nirjhor at outlook.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>>
>> I'm seeing that Fedora 18 has been delayed 5 times already, and this post
>> from Michael isn't looking too good either:
>> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTIxODk
>>
>>
>>
>> Distro like Ubuntu and Suse almost never fails there shipping date, what do
>> you think about Fedora's consecutive delays? Doesn't it hurt it's adoption
>> rate to end users?
>>
>>
>>
>
> Doesn't really matter from that point of view, Fedora does two
> releases a year, one being behind schedule is going to put new
> adopters off? They'll just go to the website and get the most recent
> version, or off a magazine dvd.
>
> The slippage is a bit worrying, but for other reasons. The discussion
> going on seems to be that the process for delaying release doesn't
> quite match the reality of what needs to happen. It'll get there, I'd
> much rather stuff worked when it was released.
>
Unfortunately bleeding edge and works when released are to some extent exclusive.

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