Fedora 22 Alpha released [LWN.net]

Fedora 22 Alpha released

Posted Mar 11, 2015 8:10 UTC (Wed) by johannbg (guest, #65743)
In reply to: Fedora 22 Alpha released by cesarb
Parent article: Fedora 22 Alpha released

That is an common misconception.

Fedora has not been "bleeding edge" for years with the exception for the components and products that Red Hat pushes for early adoption for you to flush out any bugs before they start maintaining them in RHEL.

Running rawhide directly is not for the faint hearted since most maintainers dont pay attention to it after alpha since they are too busy focusing on the release at hand.

There have been indvdiuals efforts in trying to change that and get more developers to run rawhide themselves but all such attempts are futile for obvious reasons and thus will always fail.

OpenSuse Tumbleweed is probably better choice than running rawhide if that is what you want.

Now if you want distribution that is made of and functionally ships the most recent components of upstream a.k.a "leading edge" Arch is and has been it for many years.

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Fedora 22 Alpha released

Posted Mar 11, 2015 12:29 UTC (Wed) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]

I agree that if you run Rawhide, it can get rocky especially when the desktops upgrade. But I don't use a "desktop", so it is basically much easier for me to work on Rawhide. The only bug I've hit recently that has been "catastrophic" is an F22 blocker now and much closer to being fixed because Rawhide users reported it a week before anyone saw it on F22 and triggered the necessary review request getting filed (bind99).

I haven't run Arch myself, but I also have too much in Fedora at this point to really consider switching and its not like Arch is unconditionally ahead of Rawhide anyways.