On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 07:41, Steve Holdoway wrote: > On Tue, April 19, 2005 8:33 pm, Zane Gilmore said: > > Steve Holdoway wrote: > >> Not too impressed there. Stuff that bleeding edge shouldn't even get out > >> into any kind of public domain. > > > > I think that you will find that that is how Open Source works. > > Development versions of software is put out into use by developers to > > work on it and perfect it (in fact it is never really *not* out in > > public). > > The terms "Open Source" or "Free Software" by definition mean that > > *anybody* can work on it. > > > > If you are downloading a beta or dev version of any Open Source project > > then you have to be prepared for almost anything. > > > > If you want reliable Open Source software only get the "released" or > > "stable" versions. > > > > Regards, > > Zane
Don't forget that Fedora is just the "Community Melting Pot" with which RedHat is associated. It is not and never has been considered to be "Commercial and Industrial Grade Software" ( whatever that may be ). > There's a credibility issue here that I feel you've not taken into > account. Fedora is a distribution, and as such is little more than a bunch > of third party packages grouped together True. > and managed centrally. Not true for Fedora. RedHat just take the cream off the top of the churn. > The > specific software delivered by RedHat is ( in comparison to the > functionality offered as a whole ) trivial. The packages involved will > have to have been accepted by 'the management' for release. I believe that > implies a responsibility for some level of testing and quality control. If your need is for that level of QA you should be purchasing the RHEL. > As for who can work on a F/LOSS project, that doesn't remove the > maintainers responsibility to manage the project! Yes, anybody can work on > the project, and submit stuff for release, but their work should never be > released to the public before being tested, in some way, shape or form. That's why the distributions offer testing, unstable, and stable levels. The public do the testing at the testing and unstable levels. Fedora is, and always has been, at the testing to unstable level. You might well find one of the BSD releases more to your liking, because they all purport to offer much tighter control by the "Central Command" of the organization. I read pontifications by some pundit or other linked off /. yesterday. He recconed that Debian and the other Community Linux distributions are of a higher level of quality that the Commercial ones. With that I agree. Notice also that Munich has plumped for Debian. -- C. S.
