Originally posted by asdfblah
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The termology is a bit different and some stuff work a bit different but the short answer would be yes.
The long answer is, I have way better experince in "pinning" stuff in fedora than I ever had in ubuntu/debian. IN debian most time I played around with pinning I kind of self-destructed the distribution. It should be doable but it seems I am to dumb to do it in debian.
In fedora its so easy: yum install mesa repos=rawhide ; before u have to add the rawhide repo but also thats pretty easy. Described in their wiki.
Or writing that in some file to permanently whitelist a program.
PPA like things exists also, except they are less commonly used. First u have the one major unofficial repo called rpmfusion. There u find stuff like xbmc and so on...
But there is also a think called Copr, what would be equivalent to ppas, there is as example a copr of gnome 3.12.
its a advantage that u dont depend so much on copr for every single peace of software u do in ubuntu, it just hurts to have 20 ppas, if you try to update or any of this ppas just break. In general u get just way more and newer stuff in the official repositories. As example I got in fedora 20 updates from kernel 3.11 to now 3.14 u also get newer firefox versions. Their versioning System is a bit more flexibel, or lets say has another phylosopie. They dont update everything just to upgrade it, but keep it pragmatic I guess.
For kernel they just admit that they dont have the manpower to backport every bugfixes, and for firefox or stuff like that it seems they dont want to update it generaly but when security fixes come with newer version (that seems to happen always ^^) they just update it too.
Also for kernel they say on their site that u have older ones in grub to boot from too. u dont have only 1 version installed so even if it fucks something up... you would have a working older verison installed.
But with that said it doesnt feel that old like it feeled in ubuntu. I nearly often could not wait till beta1 of ubuntu-next is out, till I upgraded, often I updated even in a alpha. In Fedora I dont have that urge, because u get new kernels and new enough X-drivers/mesa. If I feel that as example mesa would be to old its easy to just upgrade mesa from "unstable" rawhide and keep the rest normal.
Fedora 20 is released: 2013-12-xx current mesa version: 10.1.3
Ubuntu 14.04 released: 2014-04-xx current mesa version: 10.1.0
and thats even a very old version in fedora, in fedora 19 was mesa 9.2rc2 worked great, and I that was the first version with vdpau support for amd driver. So they kind of use even pre-releases if many users have big advantage over it (at least it feels that way ^^)
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