On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 12:50 +0100, Michael C wrote: > Andrew Kelly wrote: > > On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 22:14 -0400, Damon L. Chesser wrote: > > > >> On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 16:36 -0600, 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? > >>> > >>> > >> That is called Debian Sid. > >> > > > > And in a mildly tamed version, Sidux. > > "Mildly" being the operative term: http://sidux.com/Article446.html :-) Yeah, that one busted my chops, too. But I was running virtual, and had a snapshot to fall back on. In all fairness, though, that was the first "Kablooey" I experienced in the half year or so I've been playing with it. A -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
