Rolling Release Model(s), Fedora Discussion

[Rahul Sundaram]

On 03/24/2010 01:54 PM, Konstantin Svist wrote:
> KDE 3.5 -> 4 upgrade annoyed me to no end because KDE4 wasn't ready for
> prime time. The current version is pretty nice, but I've switched to XFCE.
>
> But that doesn't mean that all change is bad. For instance, upstart
> integration has been way behind.. and so have Firefox releases. Ubuntu
> boots in under 10 seconds, why can't Fedora?
>   

The latest upstream and the latest Firefox is part of Fedora 13.  
Upstart switched the syntax in their latest version and switching it in
an update is tedious and not necessary.  Similarly, a number of programs
rely on XULRunner and has to be rebuild if Fedora wanted to push the
very latest version as an update not to mention regressions such as the
JVM plugin not working for sometime.  So what is being held back is done
so for good reasons.  This has nothing to do with boot time.

Rahul