Fedora Infinity: A Dumb Question?

[Michael C]

Andrew Kelly wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 22:14 -0400, Damon L. Chesser wrote:
>   
>> On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 16:36 -0600, kwhiskerz wrote:
>>     
>>> I have always wondered why it is necessary to issue a new version of Fedora 
>>> (or any other OS every 6 months). Why cannot an OS be like a river, constantly 
>>> flowing and always being the latest edition, with a simple yum update. Cannot 
>>> programs clean up after themselves, leaving no cruft, so that this would be 
>>> possible? That way, one could jump on the infinite Fedora flow at any time and 
>>> always have the latest version of all programs. What forces the necessity to 
>>> stop a particular version and recreate all the software and redo all of the 
>>> old mistakes that were already fixed and issue a new version?
>>>
>>>       
>> That is called Debian Sid.
>>     
>
> And in a mildly tamed version, Sidux.

"Mildly" being the operative term: http://sidux.com/Article446.html