Rolling release model philosophy (was Re: Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule (was Re: f18: how to install into a LVM partitions (or RAID)))

[Simo Sorce]

On Sat, 2012-11-03 at 00:36 +0100, Michał Piotrowski wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 2012/11/3 Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com>:
> > Note
> > that neither Red Hat nor Microsoft actually support major version
> > upgrades for their operating systems

Adam, this is plainly untrue for Microsoft, they always supported
upgrading to the next version.

> Just take a look at this - MS rocks here
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPnehDhGa14

However keep in mind, that in MS case the OS, is *a lot* smaller than
what we have.
They do not give any guarantee that third party apps will keep working
although they *do* do their damn best to make sure they don't break most
important stuff. (By simply not changing interfaces, ABIs, or adding
compatibility libraries in the system).

Simo.

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