Posted by: Charles Tryon
on July 15, 2005 06:15 AM
I think 9 month might be good, but going all the way out to 12 months destroys the whole purpose of Fedora, which is to be a "bleeding edge" distribution.
If you don't want the disruption of reinstalling your entire system every 6 months, then just skip every other release. I've done that on several systems. I think they support releases for 18 months before they go to "legacy" status, and even then, they are supported in terms of security updates. Also, don't upgrade to release X until it has had a couple of months to settle out. Most of the worst bugs are stabilized after a couple of rounds of patches. That would at least give you something a little more steady to work with.
Otherwise, if you are really interested in stability, then go to one of the other very fine distributions which have that goal. You won't have the latest and greatest features, but then that's the price you pay.
Fedora ain't for everybody. I really like it, but then I've always had a fairly high tolerance for pain...
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Posted by: Charles Tryon on July 15, 2005 06:15 AMIf you don't want the disruption of reinstalling your entire system every 6 months, then just skip every other release. I've done that on several systems. I think they support releases for 18 months before they go to "legacy" status, and even then, they are supported in terms of security updates. Also, don't upgrade to release X until it has had a couple of months to settle out. Most of the worst bugs are stabilized after a couple of rounds of patches. That would at least give you something a little more steady to work with.
Otherwise, if you are really interested in stability, then go to one of the other very fine distributions which have that goal. You won't have the latest and greatest features, but then that's the price you pay.
Fedora ain't for everybody. I really like it, but then I've always had a fairly high tolerance for pain...
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