Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 13th Feb 2006 17:55 UTC, submitted by Dhanesh Ramachandram
"Although I hate to do it, it looks like we're going to have to slip Fedora Core 5 test3 by a week. There is an ABI change in the gcc/glibc stack that requires a rebuild of the entire distribution. Given that, there is no way that we'll be able to make a freeze date of Monday. So, test3 will now freeze on Monday, 13 February with a release date of Monday, 20 February."
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2005-11-05
The lack of ABI compatibility one of the reasons that Debian often flames Ubuntu. It is very common in Linux distros as Linux doesn't have to worry about backwards compatibility as much as MS does. Most always being backwards compatible is one of MS's biggest crutches. As a result, it is harder for them to innovate without hacking in support for older generations of software. Some of this might change in Vista though, I don't know.
I have my parents set up using Fedora Core 4 and they absolutely love it vs the previous incarnation of Windows XP (too much spyware). Even if a few weeks late, they will be upgraded to Fedora Core 5 as soon as it is released. Keep up the good work Redhat