Rolling Release Model(s), Fedora Discussion

[Marko Vojinovic]

On Wednesday 17 March 2010 09:00:55 am Andras Simon wrote:
> On 3/17/10, Konstantin Svist <fry.kun at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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.

It's like being a proud owner of a good well-kept old-timer car, versus being 
a proud owner of the latest Ferrari model. Not a social change, but rather 
different userbase.

> >> 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.

How does the Rawhide handle these compiler version bumps? And Arch Linux?

> > 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.
> 
> That is  no excuse :-)
> 
> [simon at localhost tmp]$ uptime
>  09:55:55 up 87 days, 22:58,  6 users,  load average: 0.41, 0.39, 0.30
> 
> This is on an eee pc that is pm-suspended when not in use.

How about the output of "uname -r" on that machine? ;-)

Best, :-)
Marko