On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 5:14 PM, Arnav Kalra <arnavkalra007@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I agree with mike upgrading can be very tedious. But I do not think that > installing archlinux is less tedious. The initial install of the first attempt at an archlinux install takes longer than an initial install of Fedora - however once you know what you are doing almost all of it can be scripted fairly easily - so that future installs are not really any different in time to installing Fedora. The huge gain then comes 6 months later when no clean install or messy upgrade is necessary. Arch is continuously updated with packages close to upstream. So if one machine is installed with Fedora at release time and another with arch at the same time - then 6 months later you need to spend the same time again with the Fedora machine but the arch machine is already using up to date package sets if it has been updated regularly in the meantime (as would the Fedora machine presumably). For many machines the small progressive updates as new package versions come available means that there is no "big bang" effort needed to install new versions of the entire operating system any more. As more machines are looked after the gains in time become increasingly valuable particularly in a corporate environment. The issue of rolling release was discussed to death in the Fedora lists quite some time ago and Fedora made the decision that it would be unable to and would not support a rolling release model - which is fine - the devs make whatever decision is agreed among them for the distribution they put their effort into. Users can continue to run with that system or can change to a different distribution if they wish. Same with D.E.s - people have a free choice - I am not trying to re-raise the whole discussion. I feel an urge to be as up to date and cutting edge as possible which is why I asked the simple question about packaging this D.E. for F16 - the answer was a categoric "no" - which is fine - that is what Fedora maintainer for this package have decided - so I will move on.... when I only had a couple of machines to look after Fedora suited me fine. Anyway feel free to simply ignore me - I asked a question and got an answer which is fine - and I am not pushing on this any further. -- mike c -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
