From: Tim Boyer 

On Thu, 28 Dec 2006 18:57:50 -0800, Randall Parker

wrote:

>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?
>

Huge new changes in the software.  You're the asking the equivalent of 'Why
doesn't Windows just upgrade IE, OE, the TCP stack, and the gui
incrementally, rather than going from 2K to XP'?

For instance, Fedora Core 6 includes Xen with it, which took a bunch of
kernel work to accomplish.  BTW, virtualization works _great_.

>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?
>

With up2date (the RHEL equivalent of yum), you'll get something like
'Configuration file has been changed.  Not updated'.



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