It has been a while since news of the possibility of Fedora becoming a rolling release came to light after the matter began to be seriously discussed on the mailing lists.
Now, I have always kept my eyes on Fedora although my attempts to install it and put it into production are frustrated in many cases, but that does not stop me and I am still interested in this specific distro. The thing is that Fedora has been a while, since release 14 I think, began to give very little support to its versions and put "the latest" in each new release; Which is not bad for me but it is not correct to stop supporting others so quickly just by putting the latest in others, I don't know but it seems somewhat exaggerated.
But hey, all this Fedora in rolling format sounds very juicy since that short and disgusting support would cease to exist to become a single download distro. Ok, ok, interesting, but after discussing this with a friend I got to see the background to all this and how counterproductive the current Fedora release system is.
First of all and for the sake of truth, if you want to have a distro with "the latest" then it needs to be rolling, with everything and the problems that this may bring (example: KZKG'Gaara's kernel panic).
Within this discussion several interesting themes emerged, such as; If Fedora goes rolling ... would it be KISS too? And well, I really doubt it, Fedora does not pride itself on being a lightweight distro, it cannot boast of saying "I'm like Arch and I touch your balls many times in the name of simplicity" or like Gentoo, who takes that well to heart of "do it yourself", so a KISS philosophy would not go at all well with Fedora. The other is that they always want the latest, the latest, period, simply becoming KISS is not something possible for Fedora, not as it is now and I do not see it as a good choice (Courage, abstain).
An interesting point of the conversation was the question that a newbie friend asked us: But if you wanted the latest, why didn't you roll from F15 all at once? Which for sure I don't know how to answer, but I think it was because of that story that a complete system of organization and logistics was already established around the cycling model and, come on, it breaks your nuts that they come and right off the bat " Ay, we are rolling = D Problem? ”. But here the truth even I was left with the doubt since seeing it from a more objective point of view and using the knowledge about GNU / Linux, what bloody logic would it have to want to have everything new in releases of 8 months? It is like saying that today you eat a Mc'Donalds hamburger and put on your list “try the new hamburger in 8 months”, there is the contradiction of the current Fedora system and that makes many of us fail in favor of the idea rolling.
In the long run, of course, everything is going to have repercussions, both good and bad.
The bad news will be, for example, that all releases prior to the new rolling transformation will be unsupported, either immediately or in a short time. It could also be that at first they have big problems with the whole logistics issue and that this is reflected in a somewhat declining quality in the distro, something that will be fixed without a doubt. Another problem would be the community, not everyone will have to support this and I am sure that many still like Fedora 14 because it has Gnome2 and if they get a rolling they send them to give them ... That from the bad side.
Now for the good we have the fact that for the sake of the saints and Tux we would no longer be forced to change or update distro because the new release simply has extremely useful things that will not reach the release you already have, like Gnome 3.2 + extensions in Fedora 15.
Another tip in favor is that Fedora wants to start betting heavily on the free cloud and the whole thing; In fact, I always stand firm saying that Fedora is the best distro to program there is, it always has a good repertoire in this regard and this could improve if it is rolled, although it could also deteriorate, it all depends on how they know how to handle all this.
Personally, I have declared that I want to gamble with Fedora 17 again, even if it costs me a bit, but come on gentlemen, what do you think about this whole matter?