Fedora Infinity: A Dumb Question?

[Armin]

On Tuesday 05 August 2008 19:36:21 kwhiskerz wrote:
> I have always wondered why it is necessary to issue a new version of 
Fedora
> (or any other OS every 6 months). Why cannot an OS be like a river,
> constantly flowing and always being the latest edition, with a simple 
yum
> update. Cannot programs clean up after themselves, leaving no cruft, 
so
> that this would be possible? That way, one could jump on the infinite
> Fedora flow at any time and always have the latest version of all 
programs.
> What forces the necessity to stop a particular version and recreate all 
the
> software and redo all of the old mistakes that were already fixed and 
issue
> a new version?
if you want to be on the river flow, you can update to rawhide :)  though 
it's unstable.  They have a release cycle of 6 months because developers 
don't like to be bound to stability issues while they are working on some 
program.

-- 
Armin