Fedora Infinity: A Dumb Question?

[Andrew Kelly]

On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 12:50 +0100, Michael C wrote:
> 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

:-)

Yeah, that one busted my chops, too. But I was running virtual, and had
a snapshot to fall back on. 
In all fairness, though, that was the first "Kablooey" I experienced in
the half year or so I've been playing with it.

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