Ubuntu is not free from troubles either

Posted Oct 29, 2006 14:50 UTC (Sun) by dag- (guest, #30207)
In reply to: A Fedora User For the Long Haul by at2000
Parent article: An empty legacy

I am disappointed that some people, like you, feel the need to polarize the community. All distributions have problems with supporting seamless upgrades between releases. It may have worked in your case, but that doesn't mean that it works for everybody. (Just like if it breaks for one person it doesn't fail for all users).

The irony is that on slashdot the following article appeared:

Upgrading to Ubuntu Edgy Eft a "Nightmare"
http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/06/10/28/239258.shtml

So it's not an isolated problem with Fedora. Fact is that it is easy to do reinstallations to test a products consistency, but it is much harder to test upgrades and reiterate over the same upgrade (for all the different systems that exist). Once a system is upgraded (with all its problems) you loose the original system to debug and fix it.

An Enterprise Linux distribution is what you need if you want to be free of upgrade problems. Long support and non-disruptive changes is what 99.99% of the people need. Go with CentOS or Ubuntu LTS instead.

Stop polarizing the community and take a step back. Red Hat is improving Ubuntu indirectly, and vice versa. Killing diversity is killing the community.