Gian Paolo Mureddu wrote:
. Having security
updates and bugfixes is good, and OK, but without the benefits from
newer versions of the programs, you are pretty much "forced" to
upgrade to a new version pretty much as soon as your current distro is
moved to Legacy. I'm not asking for this to change, after all I knew
that this was going to be the case with Fedora, as it IS part of what
makes Fedora, Fedora. But I wanted to point out that in the case of
Ubuntu, for its users the greater lifespan is good, as they have
upgrades, updates and bugfixes heavily worked on for 18 months, before
a distro upgrade.
In Fedora the updates during a release tend to be much more closer to
upstream than other distributions. For example, Ubuntu does not update
to upstream kernels post-release unlike Fedora (which has its pros and
cons). So you will have to clarify what you mean by the above.
In the case of Fedora this is at most for 12 months
before moving into Legacy; and even then, some times even when the
next version is released the prior automatically stops getting new
versions of programs and is stalled. Not that this is 100% true, but
it is for quite a bit of packages (glibc, gcc, etc, etc), but at least
in the case of GCC this can induce serious problems.
Any major upgrade include core components has potential to introduce
problems, yes.
Rahul
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