On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 7:40 PM, Jesse Keating <jkeating@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 09/21/2010 07:20 AM, Brandon Lozza wrote: >> One thing I wanted to point out. Windows users get to install the >> latest Firefox, KDE, and other apps without having to wait for a new >> Windows release. If users had to wait for Windows 8 to get the latest >> Firefox, things would be messy. I don't understand what the fear is of >> doing this on GNU/Linux. However, if for example Microsoft had a similar system and did package software for it. Their users would be up in arms for the latest firefox too and Microsoft wouldn't keep them on an old firefox version. Where is the logic in NOT having the latest software as long as it doesn't break file format compatibility? On windows the user can also install software without having to follow a complex procedure. They can try to grab the firefox source code, manually compile it in a few hours and install it. They can also grab a precompiled binary that may or may not be optimized for their distribution. On Windows its just double click, and on Linux with package management its only a few clicks away too. Look at openSUSE, GCC 4.5, came out before F13, no banning of LTO. If you want something better than stable for KDE you can one click install the factory KDE repo. You can one click install the trunk repo too. They even have two Chromium branches available for single click install (version 6 and 7). Perhaps a single click or easy method of installing a yum repo could be invented that is similar to the one in openSUSE. That would be a good start. I would personally rather use Fedora and not openSUSE too. Before I receive the cop out one liner 'just use suse then'. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
