Bug #372011 (or: how we could help with anaconda beta tests)

[Rahul Sundaram]

Dmitry Butskoy wrote:
> 
> Not exactly. Old releases of Red Hat Linux was supported much more time 
> rather than Fedora now.

Release cycle is different from updates cycle and IIRC the last couple 
of releases of Red Hat Linux wasn't supported much longer. Anyway the 
point is that ~ 6 month release cycle was adopted from Red Hat Linux.

>> Answer lies in rest of the upstream software including GNOME which 
>> follow this release schedule 
> 
> BTW, what else significant besides GNOME?

Time based releases? Openoffice.org, Xorg, Linux kernel ...

> But it seems intrusive anyway, because the user is compelled to switch 
> to the new release fast enough...

You know it is going to a major decision compared to updates for a 
existing release. That visibility is important I think. There are other 
distributions that have been following a rolling release model. Source 
based: Gentoo.. Otherwise: Arch and a few others.

Rahul