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Hi, |
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Paul Hoy wrote: |
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>On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 13:11 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: |
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>>On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 20:58:54 -0400 |
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>>Paul Hoy wrote: |
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>>>Coincidently, I received a bunch of Fedora 3 & 4 email |
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>>>updates earlier today, which shows that Gentoo is behind 23 out of 24 of |
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>>>the updates, some of them quite significantly. Most of them are |
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>>>KDE-related files, |
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>>That confirms my thoughts (which i posted yesterday). |
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>>So can you clarify, is that 23/24 packages are behind on x86 or on ~x86? |
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>>i.e. would an ~x86 gentoo be ahead or behind fedora? |
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Here also comes the question of "how far behind " as if it's a day or |
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even a week that's nothing IMHO :p |
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>My original email was 23/24 packages for x86. However, after reading |
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>your email, I compared the first 10 kde updates with ~x86 releases. It |
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>came out that Fedora was ahead 50 percent of the time or both distros |
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>shared the same release versions. In case I'm doing something |
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>incorrectly, you can also view the updates at |
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>http://fedoraproject.org/infofeed/ |
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>Of course, this new comparison is between testing releases and so-called |
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>stable Fedora releases. There is a Fedora extras/unstable list (Fedora |
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>Core 4 Testing Updates) for that, but I don't receive that one. It also |
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>should be noted that the updates I listed happen to be mostly for Fedora |
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>3, not Fedora 4. I compared some Fedora 4 releases the other day and |
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>shared them with this list and Fedora was ahead 90 percent of the time |
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>(out of about 10 recent release comparisons). |
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>Finally, after doing a ~x86 compare, I noticed that fedora-announce-list |
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>is slow to announce updates as most of the actual updates took place |
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>around the beginning of August by Redhat people. Not sure why that is. |
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>Paul |
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Another thing "Fedora" is still closely related with RedHat (a child |
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of), so being a paid Distro they have more resources/people etc. |
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Gentoo is made/supported by non-paid devs so there must be a difference |
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after all. |
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Still another thought - see Ubuntu's fast rise, made by having mostly |
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Debian unstable/testing packages with some customizations. IMO newest |
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not is always the best (depends on the perspective of course). |
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When running a ~x86 for some 6-7 months sometimes (not very often) |
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bumped on a Bug, which only hours at most a day/two afterwards was |
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solved, so being "on front line" requires much more time/resources then |
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"a little behind". |
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Just my thoughts. |
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Rumen |
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>>Nick Rout <nick@×××××××.nz> |
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