On Wed, 2021-05-19 at 18:38 -0500, Ian Pilcher wrote: > So it's not stability in the sense of stuff being broken; it's > stability in the sense of stuff being disruptive.
I can see three major aspects to that: 1. Me, who has a webserver, mailserver, whatever, and wants it to keep on running without having to continually tinker with it manually. A well managed rolling-release system may succeed there. But speaking as a person who gave up doing updates on updates years ago, now always does fresh installs, as it removes detritus that accumulates over the years, I forsee that a rolling-release system will accumulate cruft that causes problems over the years. 2. Others who write code need to have predictable behaviour out of their systems, it's hard to write code when the goalposts keep changing. If coding is your job, you may well jump to another distro that's more reliable. 3. Those who need a trustworthy system running in their office, business, lab, whatever, may only use systems that they can vet adequately. A changing system is inherently unvetted, and may not allow such systems to be used. I use CentOS on a server, here, because Fedora's rapid changes are too disruptive (to me) but Fedora is tolerable on a workstation. I stuck at CentOS 7 because of what I read about 8, first triggered off when I read the end-of-life dates for both systems. I'll probably be replacing the hardware when 7 goes end of life. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.25.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Apr 28 21:49:45 UTC 2021 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
