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Fedora core 5 will (temporarily) break non-GPL modulesFedora core 5 will (temporarily) break non-GPL modulesPosted Mar 16, 2006 21:35 UTC (Thu) by dvandeun (guest, #24273)In reply to: Fedora core 5 will (temporarily) break non-GPL modules by tjc Parent article: Fedora core 5 will (temporarily) break non-GPL modules
Indeed a distribution can very well be conservative for its base system (kernel, gcc, glibc, X, ...) but provide up-to-date applications.
My desktop systems run slackware-current (i.e. the development branch): the system as a whole is quite conservative and very stable, but I'm always using the very newest KDE desktop.
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Fedora core 5 will (temporarily) break non-GPL modules Posted Mar 17, 2006 5:19 UTC (Fri) by linuxrocks123 (guest, #34648) [Link] I use Slackware -current as well, but you paint too rosy a picture. It isa development branch, and things do break occasionally. It might actually be okay to run as a server, because the core does stay pretty stable, but GUI-centric things frequently break. For example, a few weeks ago, ImageMagick broke completely. That is a critical program for me, and I had to hunt down libraries that were removed by an X server upgrade to get it working again.
Fedora core 5 will (temporarily) break non-GPL modules Posted Mar 17, 2006 11:42 UTC (Fri) by dvandeun (guest, #24273) [Link] The point that I was trying to make was that *even* the development branch never breaks in a big way. But no conservative approach can avoid breaking things at all in a development branch, of course.
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