Fedora core 5 will (temporarily) break non-GPL modules [LWN.net]

Fedora core 5 will (temporarily) break non-GPL modules

Posted Mar 16, 2006 20:16 UTC (Thu) by tjc (guest, #137)
In reply to: Fedora core 5 will (temporarily) break non-GPL modules by rhiensch
Parent article: Fedora core 5 will (temporarily) break non-GPL modules

Come on, you have to choose between stability or the latest greatest.

No, you don't; it's not an "all or nothing" proposition.

As a former Red Hat user, I also miss the non-enterprise Red Hat releases. They struck a nice balance between stability and newness. Fedora seems not to, which is why I switched to Ubuntu.

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Fedora core 5 will (temporarily) break non-GPL modules

Posted Mar 16, 2006 21:35 UTC (Thu) by dvandeun (guest, #24273) [Link]

Indeed a distribution can very well be conservative for its base system (kernel, gcc, glibc, X, ...) but provide up-to-date applications.

My desktop systems run slackware-current (i.e. the development branch): the system as a whole is quite conservative and very stable, but I'm always using the very newest KDE desktop.

Fedora core 5 will (temporarily) break non-GPL modules

Posted Mar 17, 2006 5:19 UTC (Fri) by linuxrocks123 (guest, #34648) [Link]

I use Slackware -current as well, but you paint too rosy a picture. It is
a development branch, and things do break occasionally. It might actually
be okay to run as a server, because the core does stay pretty stable, but
GUI-centric things frequently break. For example, a few weeks ago,
ImageMagick broke completely. That is a critical program for me, and I
had to hunt down libraries that were removed by an X server upgrade to get
it working again.

Fedora core 5 will (temporarily) break non-GPL modules

Posted Mar 17, 2006 11:42 UTC (Fri) by dvandeun (guest, #24273) [Link]

The point that I was trying to make was that *even* the development branch never breaks in a big way. But no conservative approach can avoid breaking things at all in a development branch, of course.