On Tuesday 05 August 2008 19:36:21 kwhiskerz wrote: > I have always wondered why it is necessary to issue a new version of Fedora > (or any other OS every 6 months). Why cannot an OS be like a river, > constantly flowing and always being the latest edition, with a simple yum > update. Cannot programs clean up after themselves, leaving no cruft, so > that this would be possible? That way, one could jump on the infinite > Fedora flow at any time and always have the latest version of all programs. > What forces the necessity to stop a particular version and recreate all the > software and redo all of the old mistakes that were already fixed and issue > a new version? if you want to be on the river flow, you can update to rawhide :) though it's unstable. They have a release cycle of 6 months because developers don't like to be bound to stability issues while they are working on some program. -- Armin -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
