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<H1>[Mageia-dev] How will be the realese cycle?</H1>
<B>Ahmad Samir</B>
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<I>Wed Oct 6 08:19:43 CEST 2010</I>
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<PRE>On 6 October 2010 05:02, Fernando Parra <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">gato2707 at yahoo.com.mx</A>> wrote:
><i> On Tue, 5 Oct 2010 15:47:20 +0200
</I>><i> Ahmad Samir <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">ahmadsamir3891-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org</A>> wrote:
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</I>>><i> On 5 October 2010 15:28, Tux99 <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">tux99-mga-ju+53DPtYRFAfugRpC6u6w at public.gmane.org</A>> wrote:
</I>>><i> >
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</I>>><i> > Personally I think the way Mandriva maintains both updates and backports
</I>>><i> > for each release is a waste of resources.
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</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> Please don't write words in my name, I never wrote something like that, security and stability are as important to as for an any other user, but I need the latest version of some programs, without upgrade all the distro every 6 months.
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I didn't mean to put words in your mouth; I wasn't talking about you
in particular but about school/university computer labs case in
general.
And what I posted doesn't contradict "I need the latest version of
some programs, without upgrade all the distro every 6 months."; I am
pro backports repos (when possible), but not a rolling distro model.
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Ahmad Samir
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