On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 22:40 -0400, Marcel Rieux wrote: > So! No more 'The "Stable" offering is Red Hat Enterprise Linux.' ? > > What? OK, RHEL might finally prove more solid than Fedora, but final > is stable. Only security patches and important bug fixes should be > uploaded. No program updates. I'm glad to learn we agreed all along! > > Which means that, for instance, developers should think twice before > quitting the KDE 3.5.x branch and going for 4.0. Since testing means > "going soon to the final, stable release", KDE 4 remains in rawhide, > even though it evolves to new dot versions, until it's deemed stable > enough for the next final release. That's the way Patrick Volkerding > does it for Slackware. > > For non-developers using Final , "release early. release often" is > "released too early, released too often." > > Of course, nothing prevents Red Hat's own geeks, or anybody feeling > adventurous, from enabling the Rawhide repository. > > So, everybody is kept happy. ---- Stable is a vague term and I can see where you might be confused. If you want 'stable' as you are defining it, RHEL, CentOS, Scientific Linux will all give you KDE 3.5 and a stable OS whose ABI does not change. With respect to Fedora, the concept of stable is similar but the releases are shorter duration and the intent is to package the newest possible versions of software with the intent to drive software development by having a larger user base that is eager to use the newer offerings. Thus 'stable' is actually about not changing dependencies during a single release. It would be useful if you actually took the time to figure out what 'stable' actually means with respect to distribution packaging and recognized that each distribution has its own cycles, definitions and purposes. Comparing Fedora to Slackware is sort of absurd. KDE, owing to the efforts of Rex and Kevin and the rest of the kde team has provided a terrific user environment and has a fairly well defined method of pushing packages to 'testing' before general release. Most of the Fedora-KDE users are greatful for any/all updates. KDE is however, probably not the right discussion target because if you wanted Red Hat packaging, you could simply use RHEL, CentOS or Scientific Linux and still be using KDE 3.5.x. The reality is that the KDE developers long ago ceased 3.5.x development in order to fully concentrate on 4.x development. Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
