On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 08:47, wizz wrote:
> How does it come that Redhat is so slow when it comes to offering a
> Gnome update for their 8.0 version?
Thankfully, they don't do that. Once a release is out, developers around
the world can depend on things in that release being of a certain
version. Imagine -- you wrote a piece of software and packaged it for
RH-8.0. Then suddenly they released gnome-2.2, and you have to repackage
everything again. Now you only have to do it twice a year with every
concurrent release.
No, once a release is out, things in it stay the same version -- only
security-related patches are applied. Why do you think there is Advanced
Server? Big players said -- "we are tired of constantly having to
upgrade and repackage our software. Give us something that will stay at
more or less the same version for at least a year."
If you want "bleeding edge," then RH is probably not the best
distributor for your likes. They pander to places where consistency and
stability are valued much higher over the new-and-cool.
Regards,
--
Konstantin ("Icon") Riabitsev
Duke University Physics Sysadmin
www.phy.duke.edu/~icon/pubkey.asc
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