Worthless updates

[Thomas Janssen]

On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 7:40 PM, Mike McGrath <mmcgrath at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Mar 2010, Thomas Janssen wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 7:34 PM, Mike McGrath <mmcgrath at redhat.com> wrote:
>> > On Wed, 3 Mar 2010, Kevin Kofler wrote:
>> >
>> >> Jesse Keating wrote:
>> >> > We could very well fill that gap with rapid release cycles (every 6
>> >> > months) and updates for those releases that focus on bugfix and
>> >> > security.  That is a unique role that is not filled by any current Linux
>> >> > OS.
>> >>
>> >> That sentence defines Ubuntu exactly. We're not the only ones to do 6 month
>> >> cycles.
>> >>
>> >
>> > Not doing something just because Ubuntu does it is hardly a compelling
>> > argument.
>>
>> That is right. Though, the point was "That is a unique role that is
>> not filled by any current Linux OS".
>> And that is absolutely not true.
>>
>
> Their release cycles, on release day, are already older then our releases.
> That's the unique role we fill.  Well we used to.  Now we don't fill any
> particular role at all.

Yeah, sadly. And i fear it will get worse the more we try to become
something different.

-- 
LG Thomas

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