On Wed, April 20, 2005 11:23 am, Christopher Sawtell said: [snip] > > 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. [snip] Interesting that you use debian as your yardstick... which as you probably know is my weapon of choice. There is also an experimental distribution, which is *still* better tested than this.
But where do you stick Ubuntu, Mandrake, SuSE/Novell, Gentoo and others on your scale? Unlike most of the readers of this list, this is my livelihood. I *do* run RHEL ( well White Box! ) because Oracle demand that I do for support. However, Oracle runs just as well on Fedora Core 3, and I can use a 2.6 kernel. Whopee - but thanks a bunch Larry. You've subverted the whole cause of Linux by demanding that you pay for it. Or, given your viewpoint, has he? I think that my past is colouring my impression of what an acceptable level of testing is - I started life developing software for medical physics where the penalty for getting it wrong could be rather serious - but maybe your impressions are skewed too far the other way. You still download FC from fedora.redhat.com, so their name and reputation is still linked to the product. Maybe we should start a campaign to improve the quality of testing? If everyone accepts this level of software as the norm, then we're never going to get anywhere. I run a F/LOSS project, and even taking the initial software download from the developers and getting it to a state that it compiles and installs cleanly when extracted from the sourceforge cvs server took over a weeks work. Should I have just stuck it up there, and ignored the moans of the interested parties who'll never come back and never support my project? I think the implications of sticking any old cr*p onto sourceforge and calling it open software are very wide ranging, and need to be carefully considered. The implications of (in effect) doing this and ten putting your brand name to it are far, far worse! Steve -- Windows: Where do you want to go today? MacOS: Where do you want to be tomorrow? Linux: Are you coming or what?
