Bill Nottingham wrote:
While the ethos as defined on the wiki mentions staying close to
upstream
and getting the latest software, there's nothing that says that it's done
via updates. I would not categorically state that your reading is the
only valid reading, or even close to the canonical one.
In fact, the wiki implies that this is done via the rapid release cycle,
not updates.
It may not be strictly codified, but in practice it is a big part of what
Fedora is and many users choose it for that. And it is also the main
technical difference between us and Ubuntu. (I know there's also the
licensing stuff, like Ubuntu bundling proprietary drivers, but that's not
that big a difference in practice, it's not like those drivers cannot be
easily removed (or added, yuck!).)
Kevin Kofler