Fedora7 or Fedora ?

Kelly lightsolphoenix at gmail.com
Wed May 9 20:28:28 UTC 2007


On Wednesday, May 09, 2007 10:18 am Simon Andrews wrote:
> None of the major distributions I'm aware of do continuous updates
> (maybe Gentoo does??), they all have major releases which then receive
> minor updates throughout their life.  Debian, Suse, Mandriva and Ubuntu
> all operate this way.  Fedora is no different.

Gentoo does, mainly because there's no real difference between continuous 
updating and installing from scratch (since both recompile all the sources).  
Other than that, all the distros I know of operate with the major 
release/updates over time model, as Fedora does.

You CAN update openSUSE by changing the YaST repositories.  Then again, you 
can update Fedora the same way.  It's just not an advised move because 
there's no guarantee the system will succeed in properly updating all the 
necessary packages.

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