Am Samstag, 4. März 2006 14:05 schrieb houghi:
On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 11:59:53AM +0100, David Wright wrote:
For those that want to always be on the bleeding edge it can be frustrating, but for the normal user who wants to use/upgrade to a stable environment to do their work in, the current situation is the best compromise.
People who want bleeding edge can use Factory, because Beta is replaced with a new version after 1-2 weeks. So your Beta installation is not really bleeding edge. It is on averagae already a week old. Hardly bleeding edge. ;-)
houghi
But that is what James is complaining about, when openSUSE is working on a new release, up to the cut-off for Beta 1, it is bleeding edge, but after that, according to the FOSDEM slides, the Factory is itself "frozen" from new bleeding edge versions to allow the devs to trim the sharp edges off the "bleeding edge" so that it doesn't cut the average user when they install the new version upon release, then Factory reverts to bleeding edge again after the Gold Master has been "cut" for the new release. Dave -- "I got to go figure," the tenant said. "We all got to figure. There's some way to stop this. It's not like lightning or earthquakes. We've got a bad thing made by men, and by God that's something we can change." - The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck