Well, Fedora 14 Will Not Ship On Time

The last five releases have been rock solid, so who gives a crap if it's on time? Are you listening, Mr. Shuttleworth?

The bleeding edge, rolling test release fedora, rock solid? Oh dear, I haven't laughed this long or hard in ages....

Okay, rock solid for bleeding edge, then...but really, more solid than Ubuntu's "stable" releases.

Also, if that makes you laugh that hard, you really need to get out more. :) Just sayin'.

I've been running Fedora 13 for a few weeks now, and bleeding edge or not, it's extremely solid and, dare I say, "stable."

Since Fedora has a reputation of being less than stable, when there is a problem I don't get so overwrought over it. But those problems thus far have been few and far between.

While Fedora is more bleeding-edge, it hasn't tried to kill me with nearly un-baked, resource-heavy social-desktop integration or distro-specific cloud-storage/sync services.

Getting multimedia working has been harder than I thought it would be (I still missing things here and there; gstreamer-ffmpeg is one of those missing pieces I just figured out), but I'm pretty close to having it all working.

Sure there have been bugs (and Fedora's ABRT has made reporting them very easy, just like whatever works with Launchpad to do this in Ubuntu), but nothing that anywhere near deal-breaker status.

Having newish hardware (Lenovo G555) makes having the newer packages in Fedora a lot more attractive than with my aging herd of laptops that often can't even boot Fedora, let alone run it well.

Actually, this announcement is much ado about nothing. So it'll be a week late. Also, herzeleid, Fedora is becoming a lot more user friendly and a lot less the mythical "bleeding edge" distro that's too difficult for mere mortals to use. Laugh if you want, but it's true.