On Sat, 05 Feb 2005 07:25:40 -0500, Mark Weaver <mdw1982@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Thomas Cameron wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Weaver" <mdw1982@xxxxxxxxxxx> > > To: "Fedora Core 3" <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2005 10:28 PM > > Subject: FC 3 updates... > > > > > >> Hi All, > >> > >> I've been wondering about something. For the past few days there have > >> been a lot of updates coming out that up2date is wanting to apply. > >> Whats up with that? > >> > >> -- > >> Mark > > > > > > Welcome to the bleeding edge... :-) > > > > According to http://fedora.redhat.com/, Fedora is "...also a proving > > ground for new technology that may eventually make its way into Red Hat > > products." > > > > In other words, as they work on software that they are preparing for > > their commercial distribution, they put that sofware into Fedora so the > > community can eye-ball it. Red Hat follows Linus' advice - "release > > early and release often." The net result is that we get a LOT of > > software updates. > > > > If this is unacceptable to you, you might consider their more > > slow-moving, commercial distribution, Red Hat Enterprise Linux. It > > costs, but it's very stab;e and doesn't have nearly as many updates as > > FC does. > > > > Thomas > > was just wondering what was up. I've really come to like Fedora Core and > 3 even better than 2. I'll just have to get used to the cycle and know > which updates to allow and which one's not to allow. That is "after" I > get HAL working correctly again. :( That was a process I'd hoped I > wouldn't have to repeat. > > -- > Mark The question is why are there are more updates being issued for FC3 than for either FC1 or FC2? In previous releases bug fixes unless they were show stoppers or security related were deferred to the next release. Shouldn't FC4 be where the new updates be showing up?
