[Mageia-dev] How will be the realese cycle?

Tue Oct 5 16:27:20 CEST 2010

On 5 October 2010 16:21, Olivier Méjean <omejean at yahoo.fr> wrote:
+> Le mardi 5 octobre 2010 15:47:20, Ahmad Samir a écrit :
+>> On 5 October 2010 15:28, Tux99 <tux99-mga at uridium.org> wrote:
+>> > Personally I think the way Mandriva maintains both updates and backports
+>> > for each release is a waste of resources.
+>>
+>> How is it a waste?
+>>
+>> A practical example is the college professor / school teacher (see
+>> Fernando Parra post a few emails back); he doesn't want to upgrade the
+>> boxes in the lab, he doesn't care if they have the newest/shiniest
+>> versions, just that the distro is stable and works(tm). The same
+>> applies for a company, servers... etc. We aren't talking only about
+>> personal boxes that can break without too much drastic consequences.
+>
+> No need to update. What on earth is that feeling that a rolling distro forces
+> users to update ?
+
+Really? they wouldn't be interested in security updates at all?
+
+>>
+>> Again a rolling distro is something that's not clearly defined. And to
+>> be honest, a rolling distro isn't suitable for new or inexperienced
+>> users. Simply because you can't guarantee that a new package won't
+>> introduce regressions (or totally break an app), in this case an
+>> experienced user will know how to revert to an older version, a new or
+>> inexperienced user won't.
+>>
+>> Look at the rolling distros that've been mentioned, Debian or Gentoo,
+>> right? would anyone recommend Debian or Gentoo for a
+>> new/inexperienced/non-power user?
+>
+> PCLinuxOS is a rolling distro and is to inexperienced users.
+>
+> Olivier
+>
+
+And nothing breaks? no critical apps get broken in that model?
+
+Personally I haven't use PCLinuxOS before, so can't tell for sure; my
+guess would be yes, stuff break because new versions are prone to
+introduce regressions. Note that this happens in cooker, which is
+indeed a rolling distro.
+
+-- 
+Ahmad Samir
+