The question of rolling release?

[Henrique Junior]

2012/1/24 Genes MailLists <lists at sapience.com>:
> On 01/24/2012 07:13 AM, Josh Boyer wrote:
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>> How is rawhide not a rolling release?  Or perhaps better asked, what
>> about rawhide makes it
>> unsuitable for use as a rolling Fedora release?
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>  Actually it is totally unsuitable for a stable rolling release.
>
>  A rolling release, as most mean it these days, is a stable release -
> with testing and development repos (rawhide is just the latter).
>
>  A key point of a rolling release is that it offers a continuous series
> of smaller changes rather than 1 big change every 6 -9 months (or 2
> years in case of enterprise).
>
>  Once you've installed a rolling release there are no more 'big
> annoying upgrades' ... really ideal for servers and brilliant for the
> desktop.
>
>  For the enterprise - many may prefer quarterly updates rather than
> huge updates every few years.
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>  Further, for those bigger changes (initd, gnome-shell whatever) - one
> only has to deal with a single thing changing - which can easily be
> backed out if its a problem (think systemd) - and not the compound
> impact of multiple large changes.
>
>  In my view, a rolling release model is the way forward - for foss and
> enterprise both.
>
>  It is the standard model for much if not most software devel in the
> commercial world - as well as the linux kernel, mozilla, google chrome etc).
>
>  It makes a lot of sense ... and offers a great business opportunity on
> the enterprise side as well - switching to a rolling release model for
> fedora could be a really huge win.
>
>  imho of course :-
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>  Fedora suffers an additional problem it seems - not only are there
> large changes as part of many releases, but lately some of them
> immediately stop being supported until the 'next big release' - which
> makes fedora far less reliable and desirable - examples of this are
> systemd and pulse audio - there may be others.
>
>  gene - user since RH3.
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+1 on that

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Henrique "LonelySpooky" Junior