On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 10:57 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
Rudolf Kastl wrote:
from a developers point of view it doesent matter much what you use...
From a developer? Of Linux? Or of Linux software?
I disagree with this statement entirely. Fedora Core is not a stable release. For that reason, IMO, it is unsuitable for doing stable software development.
And I have to disagree on this.
To me, Fedora is the right compromise between "stagnation" and "bleeding edge". It's the right mixture, I need for my work, application development.
OTOH, if one is designing commercial software, and wants a test machine or two set up the way one projects the world will be when the software is ready for release, then one probably needs to have something like Fedora core on those test machines.
Application developers often work the other way round:
They use a distro like Fedora for development, to be prepared for the "status-quo" at the point in time, when a SW will be ready for release.
if you identify and report/fix bugs _upstream_ you are fixing the stuff for all distros...
For all *RHEL* distros.
... and for Fedora.
theres no such thing as "distro wars" with experienced linux users and real open source developers. you seem to be rather new to the world of linux.
Oh yes there are "distro wars".
... Rudolf was referring to "experienced users and real open source developers" ... I do agree with him.
Ralf