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I liked Fedora. Since release 21 they are really stepping up their game in terms of quality. But I can't see myself using it in any foreseeable future. I'm just

I liked Fedora. Since release 21 they are really stepping up their game in terms of quality. But I can't see myself using it in any foreseeable future. I'm just enjoying rolling release distros (Arch) too much, that going back to Fedora would felt like 2008 again...

bbatha 11y ago
Fedora has a rolling release channel too: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/Rawhide https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/Rawhide
- wcchandler 11y ago
  Rawhide's really only designed for testing, not anything "stable"
  - mattdm 11y ago
    Basically true, but if you don't mind the occasional hiccup, you can run it as your daily system. (I do — but I also keep another laptop handy with the latest stable release.) The most likely problems are simply dependencies getting out of sync, which results in a) updates not applying and b) an uninstallable nightly state — not actually a broken system. We're working (slowly — we've got a decade of inertia) on an automated system to move updates which break this consistency to a "side tag", so they can be worked on without breaking the main tree. And possibly in the future we can actually have a similar thing with automated functional testing (but... don't hold your breath). (Also, shout-out to openSUSE, where they're already doing a lot of this.) Of course, as with any "rolling release", you have "oh look, the UI of my software is different today".
  - groks 11y ago
    Not any more: http://www.scrye.com/wordpress/nirik/2015/09/18/rawhide-notes-from-the-trail-2015-09-18/ http://www.scrye.com/wordpress/nirik/2015/09/18/rawhide-note...
dice 11y ago
Funny, I switched from a rolling release distro to Fedora around 2006, having gotten sufficiently annoyed with the lack of wide scale integration testing. I like that there's a Fedora "image" that gets tested as a whole, and every 6 months it gets updated to the latest and greatest (after more testing).

bbatha 11y ago

Fedora has a rolling release channel too: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/Rawhide https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/Rawhide

wcchandler 11y ago
Rawhide's really only designed for testing, not anything "stable"
- mattdm 11y ago
  Basically true, but if you don't mind the occasional hiccup, you can run it as your daily system. (I do — but I also keep another laptop handy with the latest stable release.) The most likely problems are simply dependencies getting out of sync, which results in a) updates not applying and b) an uninstallable nightly state — not actually a broken system. We're working (slowly — we've got a decade of inertia) on an automated system to move updates which break this consistency to a "side tag", so they can be worked on without breaking the main tree. And possibly in the future we can actually have a similar thing with automated functional testing (but... don't hold your breath). (Also, shout-out to openSUSE, where they're already doing a lot of this.) Of course, as with any "rolling release", you have "oh look, the UI of my software is different today".
- groks 11y ago
  Not any more: http://www.scrye.com/wordpress/nirik/2015/09/18/rawhide-notes-from-the-trail-2015-09-18/ http://www.scrye.com/wordpress/nirik/2015/09/18/rawhide-note...

dice 11y ago

Funny, I switched from a rolling release distro to Fedora around 2006, having gotten sufficiently annoyed with the lack of wide scale integration testing. I like that there's a Fedora "image" that gets tested as a whole, and every 6 months it gets updated to the latest and greatest (after more testing).