OT: I feel vindicated ...

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 17:23, Tim Wunder wrote:
> On 2/22/2005 10:40 AM, I believe that A. Khattri wrote:
> > On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, Net Llama! wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>I know i'm the resident RH whore and all,
> > 
> > 
> > Uh-huh.
> > 
> > 
> >>but i just don't see what the
> >>big deal is here.
> > 
> > 
> > Its a big deal to those of us that said "Nooo!" and got burned when RH
> > pretty much abandoned us folks (frankly I was already pissed over the
> > insane release schedule). Now we're all running other distros (in
> > some cases realizing they are better) and never going back. But its good
> > to see a company admit the mis-step.
> > 
> 
> The insane release schedule is a problem, and what's finally pushing me 
> away from rh/fedora. Sure, I've happily used FC2 since just after its 
> release, but I'm growing weary of it. Hell, it seems FC3 was just 
> released and they're almost ready to push out FC4 betas already (March 
> 21 is what I've read). And once that's done, FC2 support will move to 
> fedoralegacy to wither and be forgotten.
> 
> FWIW, I just installed debian sarge on what will become my home server, 
> and the install was very easy, apt (the real apt, not the apt front-end 
> to rpm) is lightening fast compared to what I've grown used to with FC2. 
> I still have some configuration to do, and some re-learning how to do 
> tasks on debian vs. rh/fedora, to prepare the server for general use, 
> but I'm already sold on debian. And installing debian has given me 
> reason to reconsider whether I want to continue down the fedora path any 
> further with my desktop system(s).

Gentoo plug:

Chose a distro that has an 'install once, update incrementally'
approach. I installed Gentoo over 2 years ago at home and have only done
incremental updates to keep it exactly as I would have with a new
install.

Yet, on another Gentoo system, I did an install and did NOT do
incremental updates for over 16 months. When I wanted to do an update,
all hell broke loose. So, both solutions have their warts.

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