Left by Rawhide

Posted Jul 16, 2012 21:17 UTC (Mon) by louie (guest, #3285)
In reply to: Left by Rawhide by dowdle
Parent article: Left by Rawhide

I still use Fedora (not Rawhide, which I would prefer to use). Fedora itself is a perfectly competent distro, with both practical and moral aims that work for me. I just think that treating Rawhide as a dumping ground squanders an opportunity to much better achieve those practical/pragmatic aims.

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Left by Rawhide

Posted Jul 18, 2012 3:32 UTC (Wed) by AngryChris (subscriber, #74783) [Link]

This is where i'm at right now. I swap between Debian and Fedora every couple of years. What amazes me is how good Fedora is when it appears (to me) to be so grossly mismanaged. I don't see how Rawhide can be remotely useful for "seeing how things work together" if no one is running it (i.e.; making those things work together). As recently as last year, the policy board mailing list was overrun with talk of mission statements. It's like watching Initech (Office Space) actually publishing great software.

I have a feeling that most good Free software is good in spite of how the project is run rather than because of it (for any given Free software project).