Fedora To Miss Release Target Date

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When I logged into this site yesterday to post I noticed the Fedora count down had dropped to just shy of a week. This morning that date got pushed back to 14 days. Checking the Fedora Release Schedule it looks like this is actually the second missed release date, the first being on May 11th, 2010.

Fedora 12 is in my opinion one of the most stable releases of the Fedora Project. It's a bit slim on applications, but on the hardware I tested it on I found it performed better than Ubuntu. I was really hoping to check out the new release sooner rather than later, but I understand the need to release something stable.

Back quite a few years ago I was one of the many subscribers to Walnut Creek's FreeBSD subs. The first release I subscribed to 2.2.2, was wonderful, but many of the releases after had some major broken component, one of them /stand/sysinstall, so I couldn't do much without downloading a patch from the Internet, which at the time wasn't very helpful (that's why I was buying the CDs). The project continued to release shoddy work and I stopped paying for CDs.

I'm sure that since then the project has learned a lot and released stable operating systems, but they lost me as an end user quite some time ago.