Fedora 18 Release Slips Another Week

Posted by Soulskill on Friday January 4, 2013 @03:56AM from the stay-tuned-for-the-thrilling-conclusion dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The next major release of the Fedora Project's GNU/Linux distribution (named Spherical Cow) was originally scheduled for November 16th. However, an ambitious set of new features has resulted in the project slipping way past its scheduled release. It had fallen three weeks behind before even producing an alpha release and nine weeks behind by the time the beta release was produced. A major redesign in the distribution installer seems to have resulted in the largest percentage of bugs blocking its release. The set-back marks the first time since 2005 in which there was only one major Fedora release during a calendar year instead of two. Currently, the distribution is scheduled for release on January 15th."

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Re:It doesn't matter. by gulikoza · 2013-01-04 07:10 · Score: 5, Informative

Centos reworked the build process significantly after the 6.0 release. The 6.2 and 6.3 releases were out 14 and 18 days after the upstream release. SL was somewhat behind after that (72d and 48 days respectively). Source: Wikipedia