Views from an Red Hat -> Ubuntu -> Fedora migrator

[Peter King]

On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 11:44:31AM -0400, Bob Jonkman wrote:
 
> And there are four significant minor releases throughout the life of the
> LTS editions, so you're not stuck with half-bakedness too long.

This baffles me. Why accept any half-bakedness for any time at all, in your
working environment? 

Debian stable is exactly that, rock-solid (if unexciting and not up-to-date),
and Debian Testing, which I ran for years, is more solid than these "timed
release" distros. Now I prefer Gentoo, which is not only a very solid stable
rolling-release, but which is transparent all the way through (not only the
package management system but the software itself is all open to inspection,
fiddling, and recompiling). If I want to risk more bleeding-edge software I
can always unmask packages, or use Gentoo unstable, or just write a shell
script (an ebuild) and compile them myself; when things break I know who
broke them, and often why they broke.

But never mind *which* distro we're talking about. Why should anyone put up
with half-bakedness forced on them as a consequence of a release schedule?
That's what the Other OSes do -- OSX and Windows -- and there it's part of
the whole package, take it or leave it. Well, I left it, and I'm not going
to take it again.

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