


Quoting "Michael A. Peters" <mpeters mac com>:

It's been less than a year since FC3 was the CURRENT version.
Let's not make a strawman out of the issue.

I was being difficult on purpose, because you have chosen to ignore a very important part of my original post in this thread. Here it is again:

"Fedora is what it is - a fast moving distro for people that want relatively new software on their machines. Folks that don't want to change for a long time can run other distros, including free binary RHEL rebuilds."

Let's not turn Fedora into something that it isn't supposed to be. The direction and purpose is quite clear. The alternatives, many of them completely free, are also quite clear.

There are many, many new technologies that Fedora delivers to the masses and that is mostly the result of hard work of paid-for Red Hat developers and to some extent the community. If we stretch RH folks over even more distros (ATM, they have all supported RHEL flavors and Fedora to do), they will get less done. And if we want FOSS to be a serious player, things need to move at breakneck speed that proprietary software vendors (which we aren't going to name here :-) can't follow.

If we want to see new and exciting stuff in a mainline distro like Fedora, we all need to learn to let go of the older releases quickly. That's exactly why (IMHO) Red Hat abandoned Red Hat Linux, where the patching tail grew bigger and bigger with each new release. This is unsustainable in an environment where no revenue exists to fund such patching.

At least that's my theory and I'm sticking to it ;-)

