Where are all the updates gone?

Res res at ausics.net
Sun Mar 4 01:26:51 UTC 2007


On Sat, 3 Mar 2007, Aaron Konstam wrote:

> On Sat, 2007-03-03 at 06:50 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> Res wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> This is the funny thing, Fedora tots itself as "bleeding edge"
>>
>> Where?
>>
>>> yet only do so called security backports to stuff, like the ol true RH
>>> used to, which was cool because RH never promoted itself as bleeding edge..
>>
>> Factually incorrect. By last count, only about 10% in Fedora Core
>> updates is backports. If you take into consideration Fedora Extras the
>> percentage would probably go down even further.
>>
>>> it seems its bleeding edge only when it suites them
>>
>> It is absolutely maintainer's decision. Bleeding edge on pretty much all
>> packages is called "Fedora Development".
>>
>> Rahul
>>
> That is strange. Nearly every week someone atacks a poster who complains
> about the latest Fedora by saying Fedora is supposed to be bleeding
> edge. If they want stability they are told to go to a different version
> of Linux. Is that opinion not shared by the Fedora Board people?


Like I said, only when it suites them, thanks by the way, I'm glad I am 
not the _ONLY_ one that notices this.


-- 
Cheers
Res




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