On Tuesday 05 August 2008 20:15:24 Tom "spot" Callaway wrote: > 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 hahahahah that was a great humor!!!!!! thumbs uP! -- Armin -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
