Jarod Wilson wrote: > On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 13:03 -0400, Darrell Michaud wrote: > >> Fedora is very much a bleeding edge distribution. It usually has the most >> late-breaking versions of packages. >> > <snip> > </snip> >> One major downside is the upgrade treadmill- Fedora's support for previous >> versions does not last long and new versions are released about every six >> months, forcing a cycle of frequent whole-system upgrades.
>> ...which I actually like myself. :) >> >> Is there some way to make this upgrade more automated? It always seems so painful trying to remember what little doodads to backup - stuff that is not in /home >> Another difficulty for end users is Fedora's scrupulous avoidance of any >> software that might have legal issues being distributed in the US, such as >> most popular audio and video codecs. Fedora does not have built-in support >> proprietary kernel modules or drivers, such as the ATI and NVidia >> accelerated drivers. If you want all those things, you have to get it from >> third-party repositories. Luckily, there are many to choose from that >> specifically target fedora users. I like freshrpms and occasionally livna. >> > > And Real Soon Now, rpmfusion will go live. For those that don't know, > rpmfusion is the merger of livna, freshrpms, dribble and a few other > 3rd-party repos. > > RSN, when would that be? It looks like a good idea... However their website wasn't too revealing IIRC. >> Fedora 10 is not scheduled for final release until Nov. If you are going >> to try it I would stick with Fedora 9 and not get pre-release versions of >> 10 unless you are incurably curious. In general the final release tends to >> see a massive wave of fixed packages 1-2 weeks after its initial release. >> > > Sometimes, yeah. Have to freeze the tree at some point, and > internal/community testing of the development tree doesn't hit nearly as > much hardware or use cases as the initial release. > > >> It is an unlikely linux distribution choice for a business use case, or >> for a non-technical user's situation, but for a technical user's personal >> system or experimentation system it is fun and interesting. >> > Yeah, I'd generally agree with that. RHEL/CentOS is generally better for > business use case, IMO (unless you need support for newer $foo). I think > Fedora is generally pretty good for non-technical users these days, but > not quite as much so as Ubuntu. It definitely kicks ass for leading-edge > tech though. > Well, for work, I'm really not quite sure if I'm what the linux community would consider a developer. It feels like I'm a developer, I write code in C and soon in python, to do some scientific application. I don't develop OS stuff, nor do I want to develop 3D apps, I just need to solve a problem. I wouldn't think I would need "really" new $foo, but I guess I do, if I want my 2 year old video card supported (open source only). So what would "you" do? -Bruce _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
