Announcing Fedora 11 Alpha (blink)

[Antonio Olivares]

--- On Tue, 2/10/09, Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> wrote:

> From: Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com>
> Subject: Re: Announcing Fedora 11 Alpha (blink)
> To: fedora-test-list at redhat.com
> Date: Tuesday, February 10, 2009, 5:08 PM
> On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 16:51 -0800, Antonio Olivares wrote:
> >  
> > while the latest version is 2008.  This is not very
> much true for all
> > packages in Fedora, but though most of the time,
> Fedora does try to be
> > as close to the releases, but these are exceptions not
> the rule :)
> 
> I think you're confusing using the same code/settings
> as upstream (as in
> carry as few patches as possible) with using the very
> latest upstream
> releases.  There is a difference.
> 
> -- 
> Jesse Keating
> Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature!
> identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating
> -- 

What is the difference?

Fedora follows the kernel packages very closely, Openoffice, KDE, GNOME, etc., why are those packages mentioned here not in the same realm, after all I know that ImageMagick releases updates very much, while running rawhide we get lots of new packages every day and why are texlive, ImageMagick and other programs left a bit behind?

I wish I could understand a bit better :(


Regards,

Antonio