On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, mulix wrote: > On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Eli Marmor wrote: > > > Although it is not Israel-related or Hebrew-related, this news is > > important enough for this list: > > just curious, so please dont flame (unless you really want to, in which > case, be my guest): why is this news important? what is the benefit in > being on the cutting edge and installing at the minute it comes out, *in > regards to a whole distribution*?
To check (1) how the installer works and (2) how do all the packages play along together. > > the way i see it, it makes sense to be on the cutting edge of a certain > program (the kernel, for example) if you need cutting edge features or > follow up development. in either case, you get the latest code. when it > comes to distributions, however, the cutting edge is rather dull, since > they have to do testing and packaging. therefore, even with the latest > and greatest distro, you dont get the latest code. so, what's the point? > why not wait a week or two or a month? Not sure. Curiosity? If you have a spare machine for testing it can be interesting. > > in other words, can someone please explain the 'upgrade now, at all > costs' mentality to this tired programmer? Certainly not me :-) -- Tzafrir Cohen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
