On 6/11/06, Diego Iastrubni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Nadav Har'El wrote: On the contrary - this is the STRONG side of Fedora. On every other distro, when the next version is released, the last release is unsupported. With Fedora, you have another year of updates, not security, but real updates, like new OpenOffice, a new Gnome, a new KDE, a new Kernel etc.
What's the point of that? Upgrading packages in an existing distribution is necessarily limiting. Using new features to their full extent requires much changes, which will change things too much to be a simple upgrade. As far as simple upgrades go, they are rarely any better than security updates. Furthermore, in Debian-based distros, upgrading to the newest distribution is one command away. Taking Ubuntu as an example, when Dapper was released, the graphical update manager (same one which is used for security updates) had a big 'new version, click to upgrade' button. Clicked. Upgraded. DONE. New packages et al. -- To necessity... and beyond! Ohad Lutzky -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://www.haifux.org) To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
