On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 16:36 -0600, 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. This is called rawhide. Please keep your arms and legs inside the vehicle at all times. Fedora is not responsible for any injuries which occur while riding rawhide. Rawhide is not for everyone. Pregnant women, or women who may be pregnant (or that one guy who was pregnant) should consult their physician before riding rawhide. Individuals with any of the following medical conditions should probably not ride rawhide: high blood pressure, ringworm, psoriasis, tetter, elephantitis, amathophobia, or rheumatoid arthritis. Rawhide may eat you, your children, your neighbor, your neighbor's cat, and/or your leftovers from yesterday dinner. Rawhide may date your sister once, then never call her again. If you don't have a sister, it may date your friend's sister, then never call her again. If none of your friends have sisters, it may date the sister of someone you have never met and then never call her again. Yum sessions which last for 3 or more hours while using Rawhide are not normal, please seek bugzilla. Rawhide may conflict with other software repositories. Rawhide is not approved by the FDA to treat any specific condition. Rawhide will not be brought to you by Xerox in 4 parts without commercial interruptions. Rawhide will not show you pictures of Bush blowing a bugle and leading a charge by Dick Chaney, John Ashcroft, and John McCain to eat baklava confiscated from an Iraqi village. Rawhide will not make you more attractive to the opposite sex (try beer). Rawhide will break. Rawhide will make you cry. And it still won't call your sister (or your friend's sister, or some random person's sister). > Cannot programs clean up after themselves, leaving no cruft, so that this would be > possible? This is called utopia. Let me know when you find it. ;) > 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? Well, I think it is hasty to say that we're "redoing all of the old mistakes". We fix bugs, increment versions, and occasionally, freeze our state to fix the bugs we've found and send patches back up the river (upstream). If you want to drink from the fire hose, rawhide is where this happens. If you just want to get on at a set point where we know things "mostly work (tm)", that is what the point releases are for. ~spot -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
