Here’s another comment with more detail

From this article, an interview with Fedora’s project leader:

On the other hand, the long-term distributions work by basically not making changes. Fedora doesn’t follow that, your packages will get updated. We try to make it so that major breaking changes happen on releases rather than just as updates. But sometimes, if there is a security problem, we will put out a newer version of something. So for that kind of stable, it is much less so."

That’s why Fedora users are stuck with e.g. the older GNOME version until the next release.

The difference between Fedora and Debian regarding stability is that there’s a new Fedora release every 6 months, while on Debian you have to wait like 2 (?) years for major updates.

That’s how I always interpreted the term “leading edge”.

Yes, that article is wrong

Fedora is not bleeding edge like Arch. It’s “leading edge”; the packages are a lot more tested before being deployed.

People being more experienced with Ubuntu/Debian is a good point

Why not be brave and ask questions? People fill them out voluntarily and anonymously, no one is harmed

What culture are you from? Apologies if this is offensive to ask

Neither snow nor rain, nor gloom of night shall stay these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds

What does it do

How do you get this black theme? I downloaded Gradient-Dark-GTK and set it for legacy applications in Tweaks but nothing changed

If you don’t do what you preach I don’t respect you

“independent”

Thanks

Yes, there was the bourne sh on Unix but I don’t see how that’s relevant here. We’re talking about operating systems in use. Please explain the downvotes

There is no sh shell. /bin/sh is just a symlink to bash or dash or zsh etc.

But yes, the question is valid why it compiles specifically to bash and not something posix-compliant

That’s not Ross, that’s David Schwimmer

Yes but git can be reasonable

Rude? That’s a bit much

Thanks for your explanation, that makes sense. Was just curious what your take on this is, since a lot of CEOs made some very irrational decisions in the past like the recent Unity debacle or Reddit killing the community. Sometimes asking “what if” can help understand the situation. Of course with Linux we have all the options in case something bad happens

What if Red Hat’s CEO changes and the new one for some reason only wants to keep sponsoring Fedora if the direction drastically changes? The FESCo could decide that the continued sponsorship is what’s most important for Fedora and now Red Hat could dictate over Fedora.

Hopefully that never happens and it doesn’t seem too probable right now, but it’s still a thought

I agree. Html could also be compared to a config file. Only parsed; it doesn’t provide new instructions (unlike python etc)