Fedora = "the darker side of the Internet?"

[Reindl Harald]

Am 19.10.2013 01:03, schrieb Roger:
> On 10/19/2013 05:00 AM, Reindl Harald wrote:
>>> I think you all missed their point about wanting an install that has a
>>> >>>longer lifespan. They're jumping ship from Debian, and avoiding Red Hat
>>> >>>derived distros, because they all change versions too often, and abandon
>>> >>>prior releases too quickly for them.  I understand how they feel.
>> >>
>> >>that must be why RHEL/CentOS has a lifespan of 10 years
> Admittedly I am a novice in much of the reasoning about version changes but have long wondered why they bother when
> much of the new version could be just another update. Golly we update kernels and core apps with regularity.
> When it gets serious like moving from ext4 to btrfs or what ever it's called, now that would require version change
> but most version changes so far seem to be just updates.
> I have no wish to create a flame war or cop derogatory comment, my few cents worth is based on observation not
> study of code.

and that is why different distributions exists
but also on Fedora no update will ever change for filesystem

* if you want no abusive changes but security updates and bugfixes use RHEL/CentOS
* if you want a recent system with all drawbacks use Fedora

and that is why i call the article idiocity: they mix Fedora and RHEL

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