What Fedora makes sucking for me - or why I am NOT Fedora

[Jerry Amundson]

On 12/11/08, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> wrote:
> Jesse Keating wrote:
>> With the 6 month cycle of Fedora, and our willingness to break things
>> like crazy in the rawhide world, we're still a very very fast distro and
>> unique in the distro space for early adoption of software.
>
> But it is not enough. The updates are an important part of that. When
> Kubuntu released Intrepid, Fedora 9 already had the same version of KDE
> (4.1.2) despite having been released 6 months earlier. How was this
> possible? Thanks to the updates of course! It's similar for the kernel and
> other packages whose maintainers push new versions regularly.

For discussions' sake though, Fedora 9's 4.1.2 was built only one month prior.
http://koji.fedoraproject.org:80/koji/buildinfo?buildID=64533
http://www.kubuntu.org/news/8.10-release

jerry

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