New Releases

[Stephen Smoogen]

On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 11:08, Buck wrote:
> Bear with this newbie a moment... If I read you correctly, the open
> source projects you speak of are additional software and users want the
> newest software on the older operating systems.  
> 
> That being the case, the user would need to either get the older program
> to go with the older os or get the newer os to use the newer program.  
> 
> I still see that being more of a problem with faster os updates.  Slow
> down the os updates and the other projects will be compatible longer.
> 

Hasnt happened yet in 7+ years of watching Red Hat. Open Source projects
can move at either dead, slow, or metero fast rate. Those projects that
move the quickest usually are the most wanted by users also.. so what
you end up with is a lot of bad emails and webpages about how sloooow
Red Hat is and how they are being a Microsoft by holding back Open
Source development with their slow updates and striving for backwards
compatibility. 


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