Re: [hylafax-users] OT: RedHat Was: from RPM to CVS

[Aidan Van Dyk <aidan@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

* Stephen Arnold <arnold.steve@xxxxxxxxx> [031202 16:31]:
> On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 13:02, Lee Howard wrote:
> [snip]
> > So, really, I just don't know enough about how 
> > Fedora will work to want to spend the time to try out the "hobbyist" 
> > version when it would be just as easy for me to migrate to something 
> > like Debian that I already understand well enough to know what to 
> > expect.
> > 
> > Will Fedora release security updates?  Will up2date work with Fedora?  
> > Is "Fedora" just a new name for "RawHide"?
> 
> As best I know: Yes, Not Sure, and No.  Fedora has some good info (still
> evolving) on their site, and I guess they already have an RC1 release. 
> There's some link to the rawhide stuff, but fedora is supposed to be a
> "real" distro (not a hobby thing).

But they aren't aiming for stable, solid, no-chance-of-bad, etc.
They've said that fedora will always only keep "latest" packages, etc.
No bug fixes, etc, carried for "old" packages.

> I have one debian install, but not much chance to play with it.  I've
> used redhat since 2.0.1 so I have some time/skills invested in it. 
> Fedora looks like a logical path to me (but I'll still try and learn
> debian in my copious free time...)  You might want to look a little more
> closely at fedora; in some ways I think it could be even better than
> RedHat.

I think the only way fedora will become "used" by production folks is if
they split it and start following the debian stable/testing/unstable
branches, basically providing 3 OSes.  But the community is going to
have to do that - RedHat isn't - they don't want people using fedora as
production platform.  They want them using ES/AS.

> Just my $.02 worth.

and mine...

(and so goes another debian user off to work on another redhat server)

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