On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 1:17 AM, Bradley Baetz <bbaetz@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Arthur Pemberton wrote: > >> I would definitely say that waiting 6 months (I don't agree with this >> lowball of 3 months) is too long for new and useful software. Taking >> the example of OpenOffice, my windows machine has a more up to date >> version of OO.org than my Fedora machines. I find this weird and >> unfortunate. > > But what, specifically, were you missing? > > Personally, one of the reasons I upgraded to F10 before it was released was > for office2007 support in openoffice 3. (I wish it wasn't, but....) > > I've been using RH (and now fedora) as my main OS since version 5.<mumble> > and I'm having trouble thinking of more than one or two features that I > really wanted ASAP. Maybe I'm not adventurous enough? ;) > > Bradley I also use Fedora as my primary OS, and seeing as most OSS software brings new features and bug fixes with each release, what's not to want with a new update? Shouldn't one be able to stay within the package management system and be as up to date with Windows/Mac software where packages are manually downloaded? -- Fedora 9 : sulphur is good for the skin ( www.pembo13.com ) -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
