On 02/17/2013 03:50 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
Fedora offers 9 versions http://spins.fedoraproject.org/ in addition to the
mainline release, including KDE,
XFCE, and LXDE. That's in addition to the availability of MATE and Cinnamon in
the mainline release.
these are not really 9 versions
a spin more or less a different set of default packages with
a different defaut desktop and contains NOTHING you could
not install with the DVD-ISO
that said: if there is a probelem with a fedora release
because basic components are switched in a to soon level
of development this would affect ANY spin
example: systemd, it was broken in F15 and affected all
spins, broken in the way most services not converted and
supressing most warnings/errors of services to maek it
impossible debug them in a sane way
Quite true and not really any different than Ubuntu, where you can
download one image and use it to install that distribution in any of its
various forms. The basic point is that the existence of these
variations, and the people who use them that we choose to call
"communities" don't really gauge, in any meaningful way, the popularity
or acceptance of one desktop environment or the other. They do point to
the existence of small groups of people who have the desire and time to
produce these variations. But, they don't have any better way of
determining how many people use and like their products that anyone else
does.
It's my understanding that Fedora's primary role is to evaluate and
explore software for Red Hat, not necessarily to produce a stable
consumer-level product. That's very much Ubuntu's mission, but it isn't
Fedora's. I expect Ubuntu not to break. I expect Fedora to break.
Oddly, in my own experience, they both break about the same amount.
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