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A tale of two distributions
A tale of two distributions
Posted Jun 9, 2005 17:46 UTC (Thu) by AnantK (guest, #7563)Parent article: A tale of two distributions
It's a little unfair to compare a Fedora with a Debian Release. The Debian release is more akin to a RedHat server release. On the other hand, you can compare Debian experimental or unstable branch with Fedora. This is where all the stabilization is done. Of course, as always, unstable for Debian is actually pretty stable.
-- Anant
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A tale of two distributions
Posted Jun 9, 2005 19:23 UTC (Thu) by tjc (subscriber, #137) [Link]
> Of course, as always, unstable for Debian is actually pretty stable.Except for right now. :-)
Gnome seems to be in state of flux the past couple days in the move from 2.8 to 2.10. Upgrading libgnome2-0 wants to unistall gnome-panel and a few other things.
But you're right, it's usually pretty good. I've been smoking on his dynamite train for three years now, and I haven't blown up yet...
Rawhide, for the adventurous...
Posted Jun 16, 2005 18:13 UTC (Thu) by pgb (guest, #30022) [Link]
Well, if you want really bleeding edge with Fedora and can deal with breakage (that's why it's called the bleeding edge, right?) then Rawhide, the development branch, fills a role similar to sid for Debian. It's fairer to compare the Fedora releases to Debian Testing in that case.
The Fedora releases are pretty stable, of course there are bugs, and occasionally bugs that wouldn't be in RHEL or Debian Stable because of the conservativeness of those distros, but stuff that goes there is generally already fairly well tested.