Re: yum flavors vs/ fc1, fc2, fc3...infinity

From: Daniel Stonier (snorri_dj_at_operamail.com)
Date: 07/14/04

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Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 13:23:58 +1000

    On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 19:38:45 -0700, John McBride <jmcbride@ccis.com> wrote:

    > Just curious...what is the rationale of forcing new installs every 6
    > mos. as opposed to having some type of "yum flavoring" like
    > debian...unstable, testing, stable type of thing? Then just have
    > "fedora" and a "fresh" set of cd's (requiring less download for update
    > than an older set).
    >
    > The reason I ask is more and more people seem to be saying "fedora is
    > the equivalent of debian unstable"...but it seems to me that fedora was
    > portrayed as a usable desktop/server system when the project was started.
    >
    > If this is not considered "reasonably stable software" and the only
    > choice is RHEL, well, I don't like it. I think that's an awfully large
    > gap to fill.
    >
    > My personal experience is (having used at least three distros for months
    > or years apiece) fedora seems to be pretty usable and likable. Just not
    > sure I like the "wipe and reinstall" every six months.
    >
    > I'm sure your opinion may differ...not that it takes that long to wipe
    > and reinstall, but redoing all the NIS, samba, cvs, dhcpd, etc. every
    > six months is probably a drag on admins.

    Im certainly not sure of all the details, but I imagine a seamlessly
    working
    updatable is a big step to run flawlessly. Maybe there's issues with
    getting
    this working. Upgrading from one version of rh distro to the next has never
    been always free of problems. Still, I agree - this sort of setup would be
    nice
    but would take man hours away from developing a testing distro which is I
    think Fedora's main goal.

    There's also the philosophy of keeping up with the Jones'. I'm not really
    fussed on upgrading every six months, but is there a need? For some people
    probably, but I started with rh7.3 and rh8.0 which came out a couple of
    weeks
    later. Once I'd customised that and learned how to samba, nat, apache,
    iptables etc
    I didn't have any real need to upgrade to rh9.0 - I was happy with it the
    way it was. The
    couple of applications I did need to upgrade usually weren't very
    difficult to do
    manually. I skipped to FC1 at the start of this year when my motherboard
    bombed
    and must admit I do like it, but now that I have it happily chugging along
    I dont think
    I'll install again till FC3 - except perhaps for a poke around in FC2 for
    interest sake.

    Cheers,
    Daniel. 

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