On Sat, Oct 28, 2017 at 12:36:33PM -0600, Frank Cox wrote: > I don't want to tear my whole computer down and upgrade my operating > system every six months, and I don't want to deal with the > bleeding-edge stuff that might or might not work when it affects > something like network connectivity or whether I actually get a > picture on the screen when I boot up my computer. But for userland > programs, why not run the latest version of Libreoffice or Cool > Reader if it's easy to compile them and I can get a few new features > out of it? This is one of the reasons I'm in favor of bringing Flatpak to Fedora (and presumably also eventually to CentOS). We have a project to automatically convert Fedora packages to Flatpaks, which you could then run on a CentOS base. That's really just an approach for desktop apps, though. Fedora Modularity aims to solve this for other software stacks, allowing you to keep longer-lived streams for the stuff you don't want to change, and faster streams for the stuff you do want different. All that said, I do also feel *some* need to mention that Fedora gives you a 13-month lifecycle, not six months. And, in most cases, you can upgrade in under half an hour without no fuss. -- Matthew Miller <mattdm at fedoraproject.org> Fedora Project Leader