My argument is not with people who claim that Fedora is a good cutting edge distro, but with people who want to claim that it is reliable, as well. Fedora is aimed at users who don’t mind waking up in the morning to a broken machine, but want cutting edge. “””The differing policies are aimed at satisfying different kind of end users.””” The differing policies are aimed at satisfying different kind of end users. There are advantages and disadvantages to both approach. If upstream releases a newer versions, they get to Fedora development and then to Fedora general releases fairly quickly while RHEL is much more conservative. Maintainers in Fedora coordinate and push out updates for packages in the repository simultaneously for ABI breakages and are less strignent compared to RHEL about it especially for things like kernel.Īlso while distributions like RHEL usually tend to provide only security and bug fixes (with few exceptions for new hardware support or some features like say Xen in RHEL 4.5), Fedora updates includes new features too. Historically about 10% of updates are backports in Fedora Core. Since usually upstream open source projects dont care much about that (with notable exceptions like GTK), individual distributions like RHEL do heavy backports to older versions for retaining ABI stability as much as possible.įedora in contrast tends to stay closer to upstream versions. The second measure is ABI stability and general level of conserativeness. In the first case, it is a measure of robustness which Fedora does strive to be good at it though far from being perfect. Stability generally can mean two very different things to people.
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I don’t need to defend the numbers but I can very well clarify and debate the interpretation of these numbers.
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Not even Rahul can defend these numbers”Ĭute. And remember, that’s just core, not extras. “In fact, 4.5 months after the FC6 release, Fedora has issued 1328 patches representing 3.5 *gigabytes*.