On 06/14/2011 10:27 AM, Genes MailLists wrote:
The upstream kernel is a rolling release with Linus' law of
protect
users as much as possible.
While a fresh released kernel in stable often gets a few updates and
fixes the .1 or .2 stable kernels are generally remarkably solid.
This is in large part attributable to the rolling release model.
Fedora could well benefit from switching to a rolling release model
as well (no not rawhide - a controlled rolling release much as the
kernel development follows).
I don't think you can call it a rolling release unless you only count
Linus branch and discount others like Linux next tree and even that is a
stretch since the "rc" releases are essentially development snapshots
that incrementally move towards less changes and more stability exactly
like the alpha and beta releases and release candidates in a Linux
distribution .
Rahul