On Sun, 2009-03-01 at 22:43 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
of course if you want to run the latest prerelease kernel from git or the latest prerelease KDE from svn you won't find that in a stable Fedora. ;-)
Yes, you "will". As others have said, running a stable Fedora allows you to replace just the one piece you care about today - for example newer kernel builds. I regularly run all manner of upstream and also test builds of RHEL-RT kernels on my laptop without worrying about whether the reason it fails to boot is related to something I don't care about at that particular moment[0].
Jon.
[0] I agree with the comments about initrd. I have been bitten by that lack of including virtio modules a bunch of times recently when testing kernels. I was asked earlier about zlib support in m-i-t and whether anyone really cares any more. I thought not (since we have compressed filesystems and nobody even in embedded is using compressed modules), but perhaps there is a use case there.