https://lwn.net/Articles/279130/ This is a special feed containing comments posted to the individual LWN article titled "Distribution-friendly projects Part 3". en-us Thu, 16 Oct 2025 10:33:10 +0000 Thu, 16 Oct 2025 10:33:10 +0000 https://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification lwn@lwn.net https://lwn.net/Articles/279582/ https://lwn.net/Articles/279582/ southey <div class="FormattedComment"><pre> While there are obvious technical reasons for updating software, there are very important philosophical decisions involved as evident by the different approaches taken. Certain distributions especially long term don't include newer versions for example support only for Python 2.3 (2003) when Python 2.5 (2006) is current. Others distributions hope attempt to address it by relatively fast releases. Others have experimental sections that allow cutting edge stuff. Each of these approaches can really impact the type of interaction. </pre></div> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:36:09 +0000