Dave Gutteridge wrote: [snip] > This is the part that threw me. I don't get this system of numbering for > FC releases. People talk about this like it's normal or something, and > maybe it is and it's the way software companies like Adobe and MS that are > doing it wrong, but I would have thought that version 4 would replace and > be better than version 3, which would be better than version 2... Fedora does time based releases. All the version number means is that a release is approximately six months newer than the last release. Any time you are rapidly adding new technologies into a distro there will be some growing pains. Some releases have big changes, some have little changes, it just depends on how the upstream releases fall into the schedule. -- William Hooper