FC5 release question

Bruno Wolff III bruno at wolff.to
Fri Mar 17 21:40:41 UTC 2006


On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 14:34:13 -0700,
  Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-03-17 at 15:23 -0600, Jeff Vian wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-03-17 at 16:01 -0500, Tom Spec wrote:
> > > When FC5 releases (or any version for that matter), will that be the
> > > final version of the installation CDs, or do they ever get updated?
> > > Of course there will be loads of updates that can be applied with yum,
> > > but I was just wondering if once the CDs are released they are
> > > "frozen."
> > > 
> > Fedora has not ever updated the install CDs once the version is frozen.
> > There has been discussion on this recently and it was emphatically
> > stated they would not do so.
> ----
> if they didn't do it for FC-4 (and there was substantial pressure for
> that because it failed to work for a disproportionately large amount of
> hardware), it's not likely to ever happen. 

It is possible for people to make there own updated install disks though.




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