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Re: New Releases



On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, mulix wrote:

> On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Eli Marmor wrote:
>
> > Although it is not Israel-related or Hebrew-related, this news is
> > important enough for this list:
>
> just curious, so please dont flame (unless you really want to, in which
> case, be my guest): why is this news important? what is the benefit in
> being on the cutting edge and installing at the minute it comes out, *in
> regards to a whole distribution*?

To check (1) how the installer works and (2) how do all the packages play
along together.

>
> the way i see it, it makes sense to be on the cutting edge of a certain
> program (the kernel, for example) if you need cutting edge features or
> follow up development. in either case, you get the latest code. when it
> comes to distributions, however, the cutting edge is rather dull, since
> they have to do testing and packaging. therefore, even with the latest
> and greatest distro, you dont get the latest code. so, what's the point?
> why not wait a week or two or a month?

Not sure. Curiosity?

If you have a spare machine for testing it can be interesting.

>
> in other words, can someone please explain the 'upgrade now, at all
> costs' mentality to this tired programmer?

Certainly not me :-)

-- 
Tzafrir Cohen
mailto:tzafrir@technion.ac.il
http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir



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