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

Sun Oct 17 10:11:56 CEST 2010

On 17 October 2010 09:56, David W. Hodgins <davidwhodgins at gmail.com> wrote:
+> On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 19:15:30 -0400, Fernando Parra <gato2707 at yahoo.com.mx>
+> wrote:
+>
+>
+>> Well the ball is on the air. The Mageia Server should be a Rolling Ligth
+>> distro, yes or no?
+>
+> The problem I've experienced with the current Mandriva release cycle
+> is with one friend, who has a slow system.  It took 13 hours to go
+> from 2010.0 to 2010.1, even though (I'm guessing) the bulk of the files
+> being downloaded were identical (except for the release number, and
+> date of build), to what he already had.
+>
+> The same upgrade only took a couple of hours, on my system.  He has a
+> faster internet connection, but a much slower computer.  I thought the
+> faster download would be more important than the speed of the system,
+> so I mistakenly gave him a 4 hour guesstimate.
+>
+
+A bit off-topic: What took a long time exactly? downloading the
+package or installing them?
+
+I am asking because I upgraded, more than one, virtualbox installs, it
+never took more than 30min. to install the new packages (that's
+leaving out the time it took to download them, which has more to do
+with the download rate what with having a slow/fast system).
+
+> I'm not a pc developer, so I don't know why things are being done the
+> way they are, but expecting a user to spend half a day updating, every
+> six months (or year), really annoys new users. My background is ibm
+> 370 asm, cobol, pl/1, fortran, mark iv, roscoe, tso, db2, ims dc/db, etc.
+>
+> I know enough c, perl, python, etc., that I can sometimes figure out
+> where the problem is, (when submitting bug reports), but I don't know
+> enough to put together rpm packages, or where to start, to learn how
+> to do so.
+>
+> Regards, Dave Hodgins
+>
+
+
+
+-- 
+Ahmad Samir
+