On Wednesday 03 March 2010 15:55:18 Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Thomas Janssen <thomasj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said: > > If you want RHEL, use it. > > People keep saying this, as if the opposite of "updates every day" is > "release every 3 years". Those are two extremes, and there is a lot of > space in between. So why we can't use it as our advantage and fill this gap? > > > On my mirror, updates/12 is approaching the size of releases/12/Fedora > > > (which includes CD and DVD ISOs!), and that is in under 4 months. > > > Â That is an insane amount of churn. Â Users do complain about it, > > > when they install from a release DVD a few months after release and > > > then spend hours downloading updates. > > > > And they *have* to update everything because? > > Because they are users, not developers, and they don't have any way to > know what they should or shouldn't update. There are security and major > bug fixes as well as hardware support updates in there that most users > need, but they don't have the time nor inclination (and that shouldn't > be required) to try to sort out what they need and what is optional. -- Jaroslav Řezník <jreznik@xxxxxxxxxx> Software Engineer - Base Operating Systems Brno Office: +420 532 294 275 Mobile: +420 731 455 332 Red Hat, Inc. http://cz.redhat.com/ -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
