how bleeding edge will the next fedora release be?

[Preston Crawford]

On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 09:22, Karl DeBisschop wrote:
> On 12/11/2003 12:04:44 PM, Preston Crawford wrote:
> > On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 08:38, Karl DeBisschop wrote:
> > > To repeat, fedora will generally not use beta software. For
> > instance,
> > > Gnome 2.4 will probably be in FC2 because 2.6 is not expected to be
> > 
> > > stable by then.
> > 
> > You mean the 2.4 kernel, right? Yeah, I understand that. The problem
> > isn't what I know Fedora to be. The problem is what others on this
> > list
> > seem to think it should be or want it to be or how they want us to  
> > use
> > it. Does this kind of badgering happen on the Debian community lists?
> 
> No, I mean Gnome.
> 
> The 2.6 kernel is expected to be sable by the time FC2 is released. For  
> development (formerly rawhide) the 2.6.0 test kernels are being pushed  
> so hardware vendors can write drivers. But the timeline for kernel says  
> 2.6.x should be stable by the time FC2 is release. As always, there's a  
> leap of faith involved on the part of the fedora team to hop onto that  
> train, but acording to the various roadmaps for gnome and kernel,  
> kernel will be done first. Gnome 2.6 will probably be in FC3.

Oh, gotcha. I was confused because I was thinking Gnome 2.4 vs. Gnome
2.2. And since we run 2.4 now.... anyway. That makes sense. Just got
thrown off since they're (Gnome and the kernel) at the same numbering
right now essentially.

Preston