Gnome dot releases

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 08:27:08AM -0500, Robert Brimhall wrote:

> I thought GNOME dot releases were to increase stability (bug fixes,
> security updates, etc.)? I appreciate all the work you guys are doing
> and am not questioning your decision but sometimes the dot releases do
> tend to increase stability. That combined with the fact that Ubuntu is
> "competing" with other distros with GNOME 2.8 in a sense. So, Fedora
> Core may release with 2.8.1 and Dropline GNOME for Slackware tends to
> quickly update to the latest releases and will probably have GNOME
> 2.8.1 shortly. I don't want to see Ubuntu skipped over for those
> wanting the latest version of GNOME because Ubuntu wins out over these
> two IMO with it's philosophy and supportive developers. Anyways, just
> trying to make a point and not trying to "rock the boat" ;)

Ubuntu stable releases are meant to be exactly that, and the best way to
achieve stability is to avoid unnecessary change.  That's exactly what
Ubuntu stable releases do.

If you want a constantly-updated distribution which always incorporates new
versions of software, then you want the development branch of Ubuntu. :-)

-- 
 - mdz