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

Wed Oct 6 10:49:53 CEST 2010

Le 6 octobre 2010 08:15, Raphaël Jadot <ashledombos at hodo.fr> a écrit :
+> 2010/10/6 Michael Scherer <misc at zarb.org>:
+>>
+>> I do. I even update them more often. And you would be surprised to see
+>> that it doesn't create as much problem as you can think, if the sysadmin
+>> is competent enough.
+>
+> However many small companies can't pay a competent enough sysadmin.
+>
+> It's why they often choose what seems for them the most simple solution.
+>
+> I certainly don't know which is the best for a distro, but as long as
+> there will be so much sweat and "fear" about upgrading a distro, there
+> will be this recurrent discussion.
+>
+> I know that they have not as much users as mandriva do, and also they
+> are young, but unity linux started with the idea of a small core with
+> long term release, and branches that add packages such as desktop, wm,
+> de etc. that can have a short term release.
+>
+> Just telling that for the discussion, not that this is what to do :)
+>
+
+There is also a company, named Novatice, that do something really
+interesting, imho. They have created their own distro based on
+mandriva, but following their own rythm (depending on their own
+products developpement cylce). So, for example Edutice was based on
+2007, edutice 2 on 2008,  edutice 3 on 2009 and edutice 4 on 2010.1.
+
+But they have add, in the installation wizard, the possibility (not
+the obligation) to automatically create a secondary root partition,
+for installing each next version of edutice. So each time a new distro
+is released, the n version is installed over the n-2 version, the n-1
+version is kept, and even though the n distro don't work, you can
+still use the n-1.
+
+Of course, it's not a good a solution for computosaurs with 10 GB hard
+drive, because you loose ~7 GB, but it can be interesting with big HD
+