On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 3:28 PM, Alan <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Les Mikesell wrote: >> >>> After all, it increases the apparent value of the stable RHEL to >>> contrast it with fedora pushing things out before a stable version >>> release that other vendors can support. >> >> It doesn't since people can easily move to free rebuilds of RHEL. The >> value of RHEL is in support subscriptions. The robustness of Fedora does >> not dither that value at all. > > Besides... Someone has to push these things out first. If no one pushed > out new versions before the release date, they would not get much in the > way of testing. Getting xorg 1.5 into the F9 betas gave it more testing > than if it was just confined to the people who compile their version of X > from the source code repository. Yes it causes pain for some users, but > it makes for a much more stable version for the rest of us once the > initial bugs get worked out. I can tell you right now, evdev still needs more work... ;-) -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list