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Re: New Releases
- To: mulix <mulix(at-nospam)actcom.co.il>
- Subject: Re: New Releases
- From: Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir(at-nospam)technion.ac.il>
- Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 01:34:01 +0200 (IST)
- Cc: Eli Marmor <marmor(at-nospam)netmask.it>, linux ILUG <linux-il(at-nospam)linux.org.il>
- Delivered-To: linux.org.il-linux-il@linux.org.il
- In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0109280113190.3141-100000@alhambra.merseine.nu>
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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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