Fedora Update Notification: Mozilla [1.4.1-18]

Rick Stevens rstevens at vitalstream.com
Thu Nov 20 19:55:34 UTC 2003


Christopher Blizzard wrote:
> Don wrote:
> 
>> It's great that updates are being made, and distributed simply by 
>> using the up2date tools....
>>  
>> But, from the Redhat web site, a brief explanation of Fedora is it is 
>> "For developers and enthusiasts who want the latest technology."
>>  
>> So... yesterday this new update for Mozilla is released.... 1.4.1-18
>> Mozilla 1.5 is already available, and so is 1.6a
>>  
>> So if Fedora is supposed to be "leading edge", why are we coming out 
>> with incremental changes to Mozilla 1.4? Why isn't 1.5 or 1.6a 
>> available via up2date?
>>
> At the time that fedora was put togther, Mozilla 1.4.1 was the latest 
> and greatest.  I've considered starting to upgrade the Mozilla versions 
> that are in fedora as upgrades, but I'm not going to do it until Mozilla 
> 1.6, and only then if it doesn't break too much stuff.

I grabbed Moz 1.5 from the Mozilla site and it runs fine, if that's any
help.
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