Le mardi 14 juin 2011 à 10:52 +0530, Rahul Sundaram a écrit :
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 .
The kernel is a rolling releases with streams that feed into it (like
personnal repos, unpackaged alpha software versions, etc). It's a
controlled rolling release because kernel devs can play with features
all they want, but at the first user-visible regression it's 'fix it now
or I revert'.
The problem with rawhide is that at the first sign of regression people
write about babies and defend the regression not being fixed for a long
time.
--
Nicolas Mailhot