On Thursday 01 December 2005 22:16, Trey Sizemore wrote:
On Thu Dec 01, 2005 12:38PM, Marcus Meissner wrote:
Why? The products are meant to stay stable and only get security and bugfixes.
Adding version upgrades for packages would reduce our resources for new products which would hurt those...
If you want bleeding edge software our package maintainers offer packages (Mozilla, Apache, wine, etc.), newer desktops are in the supplemental branches (GNOME, KDE) or if you want an all bleeding edge SUSE, use the Factory branch.
Ciao, marcus
What is the Factory branch?
Hi Trey There's a good outline here.. http://www.opensuse.org/Factory_Distribution In summary, "The Factory Distribution is the current state of the development for the next SUSE Linux distribution". The cutting edge code. Here be Dragons! Cheers Pete