On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 20:00:21 +0530 Rahul Sundaram sundaram@fedoraproject.org wrote:
Dmitry Butskoy wrote:
Not exactly. Old releases of Red Hat Linux was supported much more time rather than Fedora now.
Release cycle is different from updates cycle and IIRC the last couple of releases of Red Hat Linux wasn't supported much longer. Anyway the point is that ~ 6 month release cycle was adopted from Red Hat Linux.
Answer lies in rest of the upstream software including GNOME which follow this release schedule
BTW, what else significant besides GNOME?
Time based releases? Openoffice.org, Xorg, Linux kernel ...
The kernel doesn't exactly have a time based release. It's fairly predictable as to when the next one will happen, but it doesn't follow an explicit timeline.
josh