On Wednesday 03 March 2010 15:55:18 Chris Adams wrote:
Once upon a time, Thomas Janssen <thomasj(a)fedoraproject.org>
said:
> If you want RHEL, use it.
People keep saying this, as if the opposite of "updates every day" is
"release every 3 years". Those are two extremes, and there is a lot of
space in between.
So why we can't use it as our advantage and fill this gap?
> > On my mirror, updates/12 is approaching the size of
releases/12/Fedora
> > (which includes CD and DVD ISOs!), and that is in under 4 months.
> > Â That is an insane amount of churn. Â Users do complain about it,
> > when they install from a release DVD a few months after release and
> > then spend hours downloading updates.
>
> And they *have* to update everything because?
Because they are users, not developers, and they don't have any way to
know what they should or shouldn't update. There are security and major
bug fixes as well as hardware support updates in there that most users
need, but they don't have the time nor inclination (and that shouldn't
be required) to try to sort out what they need and what is optional.
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