On 7/26/06, Jesse Keating <jkeating(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On Wednesday 26 July 2006 13:30, Denis Leroy wrote:
> This goes beyond binary-only drivers. What if you were using FC-5 as a
> major development platform for your own Xorg-based application (or
> gnome, or kde), then an FC-5 update breaks your code in a major way...
And you really shouldn't be using a Fedora release as a Major Development
Platform. That's not what Fedora is designed and meant to be. That's a far
better job for RHEL where you've got promised ABI/API stability, a very long
lifespan, and a lot of effort to ensure things don't change with the updates.
Fedora is a more free flowing tool for evaluating technology, where things
can and do churn, change, and sometimes break.
[updates-testing] would be the perfect place to first release the
X.Org 7.1 updates for FC5 and it might even get a few more people to
help test things there. What exactly will happen to a user who has
nvidia or ATI drivers installed on FC5? Will X.Org revert to the open
source drivers or simply crash?
Benjy
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