Wine/Cedega and fedora 3

[Sean]

On Wed, December 8, 2004 6:39 am, Mike Hearn said:
> On Tue, 07 Dec 2004 23:43:48 -0800, Kenneth Porter wrote:
> [...]
> Because they have such a huge base of software relative to Linux, and
> because they value backwards compatibility so highly, that means they have
> to move slower and sometimes not make a certain change because it'd break
> stuff. That's a simple equation: the utility of a feature is outweighed
> by the negative utility of the breakage. Once Linux gets as widely
> deployed as Windows is, it'll have to move much slower too. Oh sure the
> patches may be written even faster, but that doesn't mean people will
> actually be *using* them.
> [...]

This is already in practice today.  Look at the distros that have long
slow life cycles for this very reason.   Seems likely that there will
always be a certain segment of people who want to be pushing at the front
edge and can deal with the associated blood loss.   It seems that the
ideal structure is already in place.   Fast moving distros like Fedora
with and slow moving ones like RHEL.   What's the problem?

Sean