From: Randall Parker 

Tim Boyer wrote:
> Yeah, but Fedora is _supposed_ to be bleeding edge.  It's the hobbyists' OS;
> the one you play around with.  It's not supplied by any corporation.

What I want to know: Why do the major releases come every 6 or 7 months?

To put it another way: Why not do the upgrading of the parts more
incrementally with yum updates of various pieces rather than as major
releases? What do they change that requires major release revving?

I also wonder if I download, say, KDE from the main KDE web site and then
to yum update if KDE will get revved from the main web site or from
  the Fedora web site (or one of its mirrors) since I installed on top
of Fedora Core?

>
> It's what feeds Red Hat Enterprise.  RHE _is_ supported by Red Hat, and they
> promise version support for seven years.  IMHO, seven years for OS support
> isn't bad.
>

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