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Paul Hoy wrote: |
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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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> |
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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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I'd be curious as to how long this remains the case. In the past I've |
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seen binary distros leap ahead and they remain fairly up to date for a |
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period of time after their initial release. As time progresses they fall |
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behind and are unable to add software that requires newer core libs than |
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the ones they shipped with or releases that are too different from the |
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previous release. They continue falling further behind until the next |
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major release and the cycle starts again. |
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Assuming the above is correct outside my own experiences I'd trade |
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short bursts of current packages with a 6-8 month reinstall for long |
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term "just shy of bleeding edge." Afterall the mail server that sent |
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this started its life as Gentoo v1.2 three years ago. |
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