Bill Unruh wrote: > The philosophy of Mandrake and Redhat has been that updates are for > security concerns, not for upgrading the system. Upgrades are handled by > new releases and that trying to make sure that a particular upgrade works > together with 3 or 4 different distros would be a logistic nightmare. Given > that they do not even earn any money from doing so, finding the money > tohire people to do it becomes tough. > That's true. But it's not quite as true of Fedora. There are a lot more things in Fedora that are upgraded during the lifetime of a release. The kernel, Firefox and Thunderbird all spring to mind. Some things are too difficult to upgrade without having large knock-on effects: glibc, gnome, kde spring to mind.
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