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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Project proposal -- maintainer-wanted
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2009/5/15 Marijn Schouten (hkBst) <hkBst@gentoo.org>:
>
> Thilo Bangert wrote:
>>
>> Fedora is a much more current distribution than Gentoo - and has been for
>> a couple of years...
>
> Please elaborate what exactly you think Fedora does better than we do. I have no
> first-hand experience with Fedora, but from what I read I had the impression
> that sometimes they go with new stuff before it is ready, like KDE4 and pulseaudio.
> I like about the current situation that we also have all those things available
> AFAICS, but have very broad choices in how much we want to bleed.
> IMO this is a different issue than having supposedly popular ebuilds not in main
> tree.
>
AFAIK Fedora (formerly Red Hat Linux) is the playground for Red Hat
Enterprise Linux like Opensuse is for Suse Linux Enterprise. So it
makes more sense to compare it with the Gentoo unstable tree instead
of the stable one. Assuming this there is probably not a big
difference in the up-to-dateness.
--
Daniel Pielmeier