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<H1>[Mageia-dev] How will be the realese cycle?</H1>
<B>Ahmad Samir</B>
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<I>Tue Oct 5 16:27:20 CEST 2010</I>
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<PRE>On 5 October 2010 16:21, Olivier Méjean <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">omejean at yahoo.fr</A>> wrote:
><i> Le mardi 5 octobre 2010 15:47:20, Ahmad Samir a écrit :
</I>>><i> On 5 October 2010 15:28, Tux99 <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">tux99-mga at uridium.org</A>> wrote:
</I>>><i> > Personally I think the way Mandriva maintains both updates and backports
</I>>><i> > for each release is a waste of resources.
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> How is it a waste?
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</I>>><i> A practical example is the college professor / school teacher (see
</I>>><i> Fernando Parra post a few emails back); he doesn't want to upgrade the
</I>>><i> boxes in the lab, he doesn't care if they have the newest/shiniest
</I>>><i> versions, just that the distro is stable and works(tm). The same
</I>>><i> applies for a company, servers... etc. We aren't talking only about
</I>>><i> personal boxes that can break without too much drastic consequences.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> No need to update. What on earth is that feeling that a rolling distro forces
</I>><i> users to update ?
</I>
Really? they wouldn't be interested in security updates at all?
>><i>
</I>>><i> Again a rolling distro is something that's not clearly defined. And to
</I>>><i> be honest, a rolling distro isn't suitable for new or inexperienced
</I>>><i> users. Simply because you can't guarantee that a new package won't
</I>>><i> introduce regressions (or totally break an app), in this case an
</I>>><i> experienced user will know how to revert to an older version, a new or
</I>>><i> inexperienced user won't.
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> Look at the rolling distros that've been mentioned, Debian or Gentoo,
</I>>><i> right? would anyone recommend Debian or Gentoo for a
</I>>><i> new/inexperienced/non-power user?
</I>><i>
</I>><i> PCLinuxOS is a rolling distro and is to inexperienced users.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Olivier
</I>><i>
</I>
And nothing breaks? no critical apps get broken in that model?
Personally I haven't use PCLinuxOS before, so can't tell for sure; my
guess would be yes, stuff break because new versions are prone to
introduce regressions. Note that this happens in cooker, which is
indeed a rolling distro.
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Ahmad Samir
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