Fedora Infinity: A Dumb Question?

[Damon L. Chesser]

On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 16:36 -0600, kwhiskerz wrote:
> 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?
> 

That is called Debian Sid.
-- 
Damon L. Chesser
damon at damtek.com
http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser

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