Fedora Infinity: A Dumb Question?

[Andrew Kelly]

On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 22:14 -0400, Damon L. Chesser wrote:
> 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.

And in a mildly tamed version, Sidux.