FC 3 updates...

[Mark Weaver]

Thomas Cameron wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Weaver" <mdw1982 at mdw1982.com>
> To: "Fedora Core 3" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2005 10:28 PM
> Subject: FC 3 updates...
> 
> 
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I've been wondering about something. For the past few days there have 
>> been a lot of updates coming out that up2date is wanting to apply. 
>> Whats up with that?
>>
>> -- 
>> Mark
> 
> 
> Welcome to the bleeding edge...  :-)
> 
> According to http://fedora.redhat.com/, Fedora is "...also a proving 
> ground for new technology that may eventually make its way into Red Hat 
> products."
> 
> In other words, as they work on software that they are preparing for 
> their commercial distribution, they put that sofware into Fedora so the 
> community can eye-ball it.  Red Hat follows Linus' advice - "release 
> early and release often."  The net result is that we get a LOT of 
> software updates.
> 
> If this is unacceptable to you, you might consider their more 
> slow-moving, commercial distribution, Red Hat Enterprise Linux.  It 
> costs, but it's very stab;e and doesn't have nearly as many updates as 
> FC does.
> 
> Thomas

was just wondering what was up. I've really come to like Fedora Core and 
3 even better than 2. I'll just have to get used to the cycle and know 
which updates to allow and which one's not to allow. That is "after" I 
get HAL working correctly again. :( That was a process I'd hoped I 
wouldn't have to repeat.

-- 
Mark
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