Hi, Paul Hoy wrote: >On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 13:11 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: > > >>On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 20:58:54 -0400 >>Paul Hoy wrote: >> >> >> >>>Coincidently, I received a bunch of Fedora 3 & 4 email >>>updates earlier today, which shows that Gentoo is behind 23 out of 24 of >>>the updates, some of them quite significantly. Most of them are >>>KDE-related files, >>> >>> >>That confirms my thoughts (which i posted yesterday). >> >>So can you clarify, is that 23/24 packages are behind on x86 or on ~x86? >> >>i.e. would an ~x86 gentoo be ahead or behind fedora? >> >> >> >> > > > Here also comes the question of "how far behind " as if it's a day or even a week that's nothing IMHO :p
>My original email was 23/24 packages for x86. However, after reading >your email, I compared the first 10 kde updates with ~x86 releases. It >came out that Fedora was ahead 50 percent of the time or both distros >shared the same release versions. In case I'm doing something >incorrectly, you can also view the updates at >http://fedoraproject.org/infofeed/ > >Of course, this new comparison is between testing releases and so-called >stable Fedora releases. There is a Fedora extras/unstable list (Fedora >Core 4 Testing Updates) for that, but I don't receive that one. It also >should be noted that the updates I listed happen to be mostly for Fedora >3, not Fedora 4. I compared some Fedora 4 releases the other day and >shared them with this list and Fedora was ahead 90 percent of the time >(out of about 10 recent release comparisons). > >Finally, after doing a ~x86 compare, I noticed that fedora-announce-list >is slow to announce updates as most of the actual updates took place >around the beginning of August by Redhat people. Not sure why that is. > >Paul > > > Another thing "Fedora" is still closely related with RedHat (a child of), so being a paid Distro they have more resources/people etc. Gentoo is made/supported by non-paid devs so there must be a difference after all. Still another thought - see Ubuntu's fast rise, made by having mostly Debian unstable/testing packages with some customizations. IMO newest not is always the best (depends on the perspective of course). When running a ~x86 for some 6-7 months sometimes (not very often) bumped on a Bug, which only hours at most a day/two afterwards was solved, so being "on front line" requires much more time/resources then "a little behind". Just my thoughts. Rumen > > >>-- >>Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> >> > > >
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