--- Gene Heskett gene.heskett@verizon.net wrote:
On Friday 28 October 2005 11:57, 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. 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.
And I disagree violently with that premise. Not everyone has the luxury of haveing a ready test mule, one that can be broken for extended periods of time while problems are worked out. We do use these machines in our everyday life.
If I can't have a reasonable expectation of doing an upgrade and having it continue to work for the things that are important to me, then those cd's I download and burn will never get anywhere near the drive at reboot time. The recent 4.0 release and its nightmares is a case in point. There is absolutely no excuse for such a broken install that takes a week for a guru to straighten out and a gig of downloads to fix stuff that should have been fixed in the release before the release was ever seeded to the servers.
[snip]
if you identify and report/fix bugs _upstream_
you are fixing the
stuff for all distros...
For all *RHEL* distros.
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". I just don't
participate in 'em.
also for me personally fc4 is too stable and thus
pretty boring for
someone who likes to be a bit more active with
the linux community. ;)
i am personally helping testing rawhide because i
like to have a bit
more challange and i love helping to make future
versions better.
Please don't top post.
Mike
--
Cheers, Gene
Hmm... Well, I'll answer the topic question.
I tried lots of distro's in my search for a windows replacement this summer. I happened to like Debian and Apt. Loved SimplyMepis, but it became pretty clear to me that I was going to have to learn how to make somethings work. (When I say lots of distros... I think my laptop is 1/2 pound lighter from the hard drive grinding...)
I wanted something fast, free, relatively complete but not really bloated, and optionally bleeding-edge. Fedora fit the bill for me. And the community has REALLY helped me to learn and make things work.
Although I'm curious about other new releases, I'd still probably pick Fedora because: - it's stable (clean installs) - easy to update - good performance (easy to tweak to be really fast) - free - great community - i know it (somewhat) - learned skills are portable to companies that use Red Hat. - on my desktop, it just works. no fuss.
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