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

Tue Oct 5 19:42:55 CEST 2010

On Tue, 05 Oct 2010 09:44:53 -0400
+Marc Paré <marc at marcpare.com> wrote:
+
+> >
+> > However, changing to a "light" rolling distro would force other
+> > users, who don't necessarily want these updates (or, don't want
+> > to pay for all the bandwidth for these updates, because they
+> > are happy with the version they have) to download them.
+> >
+> >> Other distros are now trying this model, only for browsers as
+> >> I now.
+> >>
+> >> We can run a poll for select what are the programs in that
+> >> list, and then the devel team must tell us what programs can
+> >> be upgraded due technical reasons and what programs can't do.
+> >>
+> >> My own favourites list is:
+> >>
+> >> Openoffice (LibreOficce?)
+> >
+> > So, you want to force everyone to download 300MB of packages,
+> > because you want a few new features?
+> >
+> 
+> We were just reminded in another thread that many users are still
+> using dial-up services. I think we should also keep this in mind.
+> It would be nice to know, even if you are just speaking in terms
+> of your knowledge of your country, if dial-up service are
+> prevalent in your country.
+> 
+> The update or do a rolling update may have a huge impact on these
+> users.
+> 
+> In Canada, dial-up is still used but high speed hookup is the
+> norm.
+> 
+> Marc
+> 
+
+Very few people in the UK are still using dialup, BUT there are
+lots of people who are using netbooks with mobile broadband while
+out and about. Mobile broadband in this country has very restricted
+bandwidth, and if you go over your allowance it's very expensive!
+
+I doubt if mobile broadband users will be running cauldron on their
+netbooks - possibly they will be brave enough to use cauldron on a
+home machine but they will need the stable version on the netbook
+so they have access to business records while they are away from
+home/office - but it needs to be easy to switch off/opt out of
+updating automatically every time there's an internet connection so
+that netbook users don't have to waste precious bandwidth on an
+update for OpenOffice.
+
+I know a couple of netbook users who have had problems with
+automatic Windows updates running in the background on their
+netbooks eating all their bandwidth and I wouldn't want Megeia
+users to suffer the same fate.
+
+-- 
+Margot
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