Fedora Infinity: A Dumb Question?

Jose Celestino japc at co.sapo.pt
Tue Aug 5 22:43:38 UTC 2008


Words by kwhiskerz [Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 04:36:21PM -0600]:
> I have always wondered why it is necessary to issue a new version of Fedora 
> (or any other OS every 6 months). Why cannot an OS be like a river, constantly 
> flowing and always being the latest edition, with a simple yum update. Cannot 
> programs clean up after themselves, leaving no cruft, so that this would be 
> possible? That way, one could jump on the infinite Fedora flow at any time and 
> always have the latest version of all programs. What forces the necessity to 
> stop a particular version and recreate all the software and redo all of the 
> old mistakes that were already fixed and issue a new version?
> 

They are like you imagine. Versions are more like checkpoints for new
installers.

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