Le mardi 14 juin 2011 Ã 10:52 +0530, Rahul Sundaram a Ãcrit : > On 06/14/2011 10:27 AM, Genes MailLists wrote: > > The upstream kernel is a rolling release with Linus' law of protect > > users as much as possible. > > > > While a fresh released kernel in stable often gets a few updates and > > fixes the .1 or .2 stable kernels are generally remarkably solid. > > > > This is in large part attributable to the rolling release model. > > > > Fedora could well benefit from switching to a rolling release model > > as well (no not rawhide - a controlled rolling release much as the > > kernel development follows). > > I don't think you can call it a rolling release unless you only count > Linus branch and discount others like Linux next tree and even that is a > stretch since the "rc" releases are essentially development snapshots > that incrementally move towards less changes and more stability exactly > like the alpha and beta releases and release candidates in a Linux > distribution . The kernel is a rolling releases with streams that feed into it (like personnal repos, unpackaged alpha software versions, etc). It's a controlled rolling release because kernel devs can play with features all they want, but at the first user-visible regression it's 'fix it now or I revert'. The problem with rawhide is that at the first sign of regression people write about babies and defend the regression not being fixed for a long time. -- Nicolas Mailhot -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
