A dream of a Red hat linux for desktop PC ?

[Rahul Sundaram]

James Wilkinson wrote:

> And then there's the high turnover of updates. That's much the same
> thing -- it would be easy for someone with sufficient bandwidth to
> provide a "security and serious bugfix only" yum repo for supported
> Fedora distributions, supplying selected official updates. They could
> probably even call it Fedora.
> 

There is a much easier way to enable this which is what folks are 
working on. Simply add more metadata and expose them better to the tools 
so that yum or a plugin, tools on top of it would fetch you only the 
security fixes. This is not the magic bullet since Fedora stays closer 
to upstream and if there is a security fix, in 90% of cases according to 
previous stats the means is not backporting but a update provided for 
the newer version. Combined with all the exploration of delta rpms etc 
this has the potential to suit the needs of folks who dont want to run 
through many updates as often.

https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/projects/bodhi
https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/projects/presto

Rahul