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

Tue Oct 5 17:41:40 CEST 2010

On 5 October 2010 17:36, Tux99 <tux99-mga at uridium.org> wrote:
+>
+>
+> Quote: Ahmad Samir wrote on Tue, 05 October 2010 16:27
+>> 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.
+>
+> Sure there can be breakages, but i have also experienced breakages (even
+> huges one like 2009.0 with kd4 updats completely uninstalling kde3 even
+> though kde 3 was still supported in 2009.0) with the mandriva model of
+> backported security fixes.
+>
+> Saying that the current mdv model is safer than a 'light' rolling model as
+> suggested in the previous posts is your personal opinion, not a fact.
+>
+>
+
+A personal opinion based on facts.
+
+A rolling distro isn't a defined term, as Michael explained, now you
+add "light" to the equation and it becomes even more undefined.
+
+I said all I got to say on this topic, now I can wait and see how
+things turn out (my guess would be it'll stay the same, Cauldron a
+rolling/dev distro, and stable releases on predefined intervals, just
+my "personal" guess).
+
+-- 
+Ahmad Samir
+