Rants over Fedora Desktop 7 Test 1
I don't believe in Fedora as a stable, production-grade distro, as it changes radically twice a year (with each release), always bringing something new, but also always breaking something. Relying on Fedora would mean to say, twice a year: "here's a good release; here's a bad release; here's a good release; here's a bad release...".
Fedora 7 is most likely to be a good release though, having some important objectives, and being the first release to unify Core and Extras. Maybe the first mainstream distro to have a tickless kernel too!
It will include a lot of more advanced features than RHEL5 (and its clones, like CentOS5), so until RHEL6, you will have in Fedora some 18 months of innovative features not in the mainstream enterprise distros (if we ignore Novell; Debian Etch is even more "retarded" in what it includes, starting with the version of GNOME). Although a given Fedora release is not supported long enough to give me the feeling of security (so I could stay with a release that works on my hardware), I thought I could give a quick try to the new Fedora Desktop 7 Test 1 (6.90) — screenshots already on Phoronix and on Linux Questions.
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