2012/1/24 Genes MailLists <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>: > On 01/24/2012 07:13 AM, Josh Boyer wrote: > >> >> How is rawhide not a rolling release? Or perhaps better asked, what >> about rawhide makes it >> unsuitable for use as a rolling Fedora release? > > Actually it is totally unsuitable for a stable rolling release. > > A rolling release, as most mean it these days, is a stable release - > with testing and development repos (rawhide is just the latter). > > A key point of a rolling release is that it offers a continuous series > of smaller changes rather than 1 big change every 6 -9 months (or 2 > years in case of enterprise). > > Once you've installed a rolling release there are no more 'big > annoying upgrades' ... really ideal for servers and brilliant for the > desktop. > > For the enterprise - many may prefer quarterly updates rather than > huge updates every few years. > > Further, for those bigger changes (initd, gnome-shell whatever) - one > only has to deal with a single thing changing - which can easily be > backed out if its a problem (think systemd) - and not the compound > impact of multiple large changes. > > In my view, a rolling release model is the way forward - for foss and > enterprise both. > > It is the standard model for much if not most software devel in the > commercial world - as well as the linux kernel, mozilla, google chrome etc). > > It makes a lot of sense ... and offers a great business opportunity on > the enterprise side as well - switching to a rolling release model for > fedora could be a really huge win. > > imho of course :- > > Fedora suffers an additional problem it seems - not only are there > large changes as part of many releases, but lately some of them > immediately stop being supported until the 'next big release' - which > makes fedora far less reliable and desirable - examples of this are > systemd and pulse audio - there may be others. > > gene - user since RH3. > > > > > > > -- > devel mailing list > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel +1 on that -- Henrique "LonelySpooky" Junior -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
