User:Adricnet/Why Update
From OLPC
Technical
- improved Wifi compatibility
- copy and paste!
- sudo / become_root
- improved safety from Rainbow Activity isolation
- greatly improved battery life with suspend
- compatibility with available Activities and content
- firmware improvements?
- Translations improved and ..
- wider testing of everything
Philosophical
- Linux and its software are constantly improving and changing. It could be said that's the whole point of it.
- Although there may be a 'stable release' even that is not static. If treated as such patches/fixes will be missed.
- Upstream package changes, including kernel that cannot be reliably yum'd in and of course:
- Security. Until we learn to make great safe software, newer software will likely always be safer than older.
Plainly argumentive
- You can't really keep us out, now can you?
- Wouldn't you like a few thousand loud-mouthed hackers and parents to take a shot at the release before 100s of thousands of schoolchildren are issued XOs with it flashed on them?