Rolling Release Model(s), Fedora Discussion

[Konstantin Svist]

On 03/16/2010 01:41 PM, Mike McCarty wrote:
> How times have changed. It used to be that *NIX supporters put
> the output from uptime in their e-mails, some of which were
> years. It was a symbol of how stable the releases were, and
> how stable the machines running them were.
>
> Now people "look forward" to their next reboot and even re install.
>
> It's an interesting social change, I guess.
>
> A "rolling release" is not possible when one changes versions
> of the compiler, in general, unless one uses only statically
> linked images. I don't foresee that happening.
>
> Mike
>   

Well, a lot of people use laptops nowadays... I use my laptop as primary
workstation at work and take it home every day, for example.
As for desktops - power outages happen at least 2-3 times a year anyway