60% of Fedora packages obsolete

[Rahul Sundaram]

On 07/21/2009 02:25 AM, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> Arthur Pemberton wrote:
>> Article: http://oswatershed.org/
>>
>> That's much higher than I would have guessed. I suppose Fedora is no
>> longer as fast paced as it used to be. Arch seems to be the innovating
>> distro now.
>>
> What I don't understand is how they figure it. Are they only
> comparing 20 packages to get the percentage?

It seems so and he is not considering the time since last release which
is why OpenSUSE is claimed to be 90% "obsolete". In other words, this
analysis has deep flaws.

Rahul