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Fedora Core 2 Schedule Up
An anonymous reader writes "The Fedora website has posted a schedule for their second release. " Now that the 2.6 Kernel is out, I imagine all the major distributions will have updates relatively soon.
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Updates will be out, yes, but most distributions have already had 2.6 updates available as a "No, it's not ready yet, but here you go."
Remember how fun 2.4 was when it first came out?
Yeah.
Fedora is basically Redhat's testbed for new technology, so it makes perfect sense for them to push out 2.6 this quickly.
I'll tell you why.
Because I love and use Debian, but contrary to what the Debian fanatics will tell you, the testing/unstable versions are unusable for serious business. So, I have to use the stable build, which has many good qualities, but as others have noted... kernel 2.2 as the default kernel?!? X Window System is a P.I.T.A. for anybody but an X god and forget about detecting my Radeon. GCC in stable is so old that there are ANSI compatibility problems. etc. etc. And no, package pinning does NOT solve any of this.
I absolutely despise Windows, but at least I can run recent compilers on Windows 98 without having to compile the compilers myself. At least the latest games still work.
I'm not merely complaining idly. If I could pay $50 for a stable version of Debian that worked right, had reasonably modern versions of everything, and was still idealistically free, I'd be first in line with my checkbook.
-- laws are the opinions of politicians --
Is this really where linux is going, one distro for this kind of utilities and one distro for security, another for network-chores and this one for mailservers etc.
I know you can't win them all, aren't there enough distroes out there. What the world needs now is more people contributing to the existing projects rather than people forking new projects.
I'd rather see 10 new RedHat/Debian/Whatever developers than 10 new distroes specializing in their own thing. Why not create the necessary packages for a smashing audio-distro and submit them to your favourite distro ?