Robin Laing wrote:
Tom Horsley wrote:
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In fact, while we're at it - never have another "release", just keep
upgrading rpms forever with individual packages being released,
but nothing called a whole distribution having a release. Individual
rpms just get marked obsolete and replaced with new ones in the
ever updated lists.
Now *that* would be a Knight in shining armor! Fedora 7 is a mere
feeble imitation in comparison :-).
[Just don't ask me to do any of the work :-].
Now, this is a great idea. No more worrying about upgrades or do I have
enough time before the next release to make all the changes. What about
he secondary repositories for things that will never be in Fedora proper
that you have to wait to be released.
I would like to see Fedora 7 or Fedora 8 become just Fedora and then no
more 6 month release dates. Just updates to what would be the next
release.
I agree. Not to get totally flamed on here, but that is one of the best
features about Gentoo. There's no 'release cycle', instead they have
'profiles' that they changes about every 6 months or so that include a
new baselayout (if needed) to include changed core components, gcc, etc
and you can 'upgrade' to that by changing the symlink to it.
I mean the only REAL difference between FC5 and FC6 (apart from the
installer/options, etc) is the newer packages of the stuff that's
already on the system (for an upgrade, that is).
I personally think this will set linux apart more from the Windows
crowd. I mean, how many of us have dreaded upgrading Windows? I know I
have. (But then, I"m still running XP SP1 on my gaming boxes.)
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