On Thu, 28 Mar 2013 11:37:52 -0400 Jared Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> In short, let me add that if you're looking for a conservative Linux > desktop environment that rarely changes and doesn't push its users > (and yes, sometimes drags them kicking and screaming) into the future, > then Fedora probably isn't the right distro for you. And that's OK -- > part of the reason that there are so many Linux distributions is that > there's not one distribution that is able to be everything for > everybody. If you are looking for a conservative, only changes every > five-to-ten years, boring old operating system, I can point you at > several distributions that might be a better fit. Hear, hear! Quite right. Linux is about choice. You can be bleeding edge or conservative; either way Linux will accommodate you. But with choice comes responsibility: the responsibility to know what's out there (or know someone who does :-) and know what you want. I've done the bleeding edge stuff, Ubuntu, Fedora, and others. I've since moved to Debian Stable, about the most boring distribution in existence, precisely because I want boring and stable. I look at Fedora as a test bed for Red Hat, and Ubuntu as a test bed for Debian. I'll let the Fedora and Ubuntu users get the kinks out of the bleeding edge stuff, and I'll get them when they are much more mature. > > Is Fedora perfect? Nope. Do I think Fedora is fundamentally better > and stronger than it was three years ago? Sure. In the end, though, > I think it's important to point out that building a distro is an > iterative process -- you build things, break things, replace things, > and build again. Right, and that's a necessary process on the road to maturity. But I have had quite enough of my operating system or GUI breaking while I'm trying to develop some product or write a report. I can't afford to wonder if a problem is something I've done or some foolishness in software I depend on. > > Here's to what we'll build in the next few years! Build and mature, please. :-) Building a new program is the flashy, glamorous stuff. It's the debugging and maturation that's the boring grunt work. But you need both. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
