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Linux Magazine: Keeping Fedora Ship Shape
Jan 9, 2005, 13 :00 UTC (6 Talkback[s]) (7285 reads)

(Other stories by Jason Perlow)

[ Thanks to Jason Perlow for this link. ]

"I've started to have a sort of love-hate relationship with Fedora. On the one hand, I like the fact that the Fedora Project keeps their distribution constantly up-to-date, making all of the latest and greatest advancements in KDE, GNOME, OpenOffice.org, and so on available to me. On the other hand, Fedora can sometimes be as stable as Anne Heche strung out on peyote.

"I know, I know: that's what I get for using a 'work in progress' as my desktop operating system instead of a commercial Linux distribution. But let's face it: Fedora is darned popular, a lot of good stuff is being packaged for it first, and some of us like to live on the bleeding edge. We want our cake and want to eat it, too..."

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There is not, nor ever will be a nirvana ...   Here's a clue...   
Greg
Jan 9, 2005, 15:36:26
 
Fedora is so darned popular because peop ...   Darned popular   
Alastor
Jan 9, 2005, 16:03:45
 
I don't understand the appeal of Fed ...   why Fedora?   
alice sysadmin
Jan 9, 2005, 17:31:04
 
Gentoo is more bleeding edge.  A stock i ...   Distributions...   
James Cornell
Jan 10, 2005, 01:01:10
 
> I don't understand the appeal of F ...   Re: why Fedora?   
Bruce
Jan 10, 2005, 02:15:22
 
I'm not sure why Fedora Core gets su ...   Bad rap?   
Chris
Jan 10, 2005, 11:49:33
 
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