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

Thu Oct 7 17:16:03 CEST 2010

On Thu, 07 Oct 2010, Tux99 wrote:
+
+> 
+> > But what about the people who don't need new versions, but want stability
+> > and security updates ?
+> 
+> As many people here have said already, version updates doesn't 
+> automatically mean instability and/or incompatibilities, in fact such a 
+> risk is very small, as anyone who has used backports in Mdv can confirm.
+> 
+> Someone who needs absolute stability (for example for important 
+> servers), will always use other distros that specifically focus on that, 
+> like Centos.
+
+They could use Mandriva for good stability (not absolute). Why do you
+want to exclude them from Mageia ?
+
+> We cannot cater to everyone, I'm assuming that Mageia is primarily an 
+> end-user desktop distro (like Mandriva was) so we might as well improve 
+> it for that purpose. 
+
+And what makes you think end-users want new versions rather than
+stability ?
+
+I know a lot of people that don't care about new versions, but are very
+annoyed when an update breaks something.
+
+For example me, if I setup a computer for my parents, they ask me when
+something is broken so I need to spend some time to fix it. And they
+don't care about new versions, they can wait 6 months or 1 year to have
+the latest KDE.
+
+