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

Thu Oct 7 17:31:58 CEST 2010

+
+Quote: nicolas vigier wrote on Thu, 07 October 2010 17:16
+> > 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 ?
+
+I don't want to exclude anyone, but Mandriva (apart from MES which is a
+separate product) never was the best choice for a long-term stable server
+install, sure some people used it but it was a small minority compared to
+those that use Centos/Redhat, Suse or even Ubuntu LTS.
+
+We have debated that already earlier in this thread, most people that need
+Centos/Redhat like stability also need long-term support which we cannot
+provide anyway (at least for now).
+
+> And what makes you think end-users want new versions rather than
+> stability ?
+
+Like I mentioned in my previous post (and others here confirmed), many
+years of spending on Linux related forums. Most non-geek users just want
+to be able to install new app versions, not upgrade the whole distro.
+
+> I know a lot of people that don't care about new versions, but are
+> very
+> annoyed when an update breaks something.
+
+Distro upgrades tend to break a lot more things.
+
+> 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.
+
+I'm repeating myself: we don't want to upgrade the core packages like KDE
+between releases, only apps without child-dependencies and where the
+upgrade is not a major upgrade with incomaptible changes.
+
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