To many users, releasing new software with the pace like Fedora is doing right now can be very exciting. To me, it's a bit scary. I just installed Fedora Core 5 a couple months ago and now, it's 7. My main concerns are:
1. What if people stop focusing on old versions? If I need an rpm package, I have to dig for fc5 release and all I could find are newer versions. I am stuck. I can't get my NIC driver to work on FC5. Well, then the answer would be.. upgrade! I can't just upgrade the servers over night. I am running 20 servers with the same version.... in a cluster. I can't keep up, I am feeling like I am being left behind.
2. So a new user just managed to order a Fedora Core 6 CD. Now, it's obsolete. We all know how it feels like to be outdated, specially the IT folks. As a result, new users will just basically give up.
I like Fedora and I will try to continue to use it. I just hope that one day, I don't have to pay the price for either because I am not upgrading or because I upgraded. May be I am not the type of users that Fedora is targeting. May be I belong to Debian.
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