Todd Walton said:
> On 6/11/05, DJA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Fedora Core 2 is now in "Legacy" status, which means that it will no
>> longer receive updates (security, fixes, etc.). FC3 is now the
>> current
>> version, with FC4's final release pending (now in the Test 3 phase).
>
> If a person were, at this moment, considering installing and running
> the Fedora distribution, would there be a benefit to waiting for FC4?
> Since it's so close, I mean.
That's hard to tell. Do you have some new hardware that's not yet
supported in FC3? Are you needing some feature in the latest version
of gcc? Affirmative answers to those questions might indicate you
might want to wait. It's a pesonal question without clear answers,
unless you have specific needs.
> Coming from a mostly version-less distro myself, I don't understand
> why a distro slated for the desktop has versions. Do they have a use?
> It seems like kind of a leftover from its business-oriented days of
> Red Hat. Like something they need to figure out how to get rid of.
Versions change when core parts of the system change. Go ahead,
upgrade the major version of gcc on your system and see how much of it
still works. Versioning is so end users will know which packages have
been tested and work together. It has absolutely nothing to do with
business-orientation.
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