Rolling Release Model(s), Fedora Discussion

Mike McCarty Mike.McCarty at sbcglobal.net
Fri Mar 19 20:37:25 UTC 2010


Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> Dear friends, 
> 
> This is indeed an interesting topic and I am not completely sure which
> side I am on. Perhaps a hybrid but more on the side of the rolling
> release model after thinking about it for the reasons listed below.
> 
> A rolling release has the advantage that once I set up someone who is
> not that much into linux, his system never gets out of date as long as
> he/she does stable updates whenever needed. I think this is a major
> benefit of the rolling release schedule. Otherwise, this will

It has a major disadvantage to the support team, of not being
able to "retire" a release from support.

Mike
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