[Ilugc] Distro release cycle
- From: raju.rajsand@xxxxxxxxx (Rajagopal Swaminathan)
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 03:23:13 +0530
Greetings,
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 4:12 PM, Priyanka Sarkar <efyedit6 at efyindia.com>
wrote:
Dear All,
We thought of coming up a good story on the distro release time span.
Our question is 'With many distros going for a six-monthly release
cycle, do you think the release cycles of distros are too short? (And
users don't have to upgrade on a frequent basis?) '
What do you think on this? Would really appreciate if you share your
views elaborately.
I would go for RHEL/CentOS (and any LTS distro with commercial support
in the offing) with 10 years lifetime. It's a no brainer.
I do understand newer hardware always not always being supported. But
then the advantages are:
1. Commercial enterprises would like stable, rock-solid "bread and
butter platform to run their business.
2. The Level 1 and Level 2 sysadmins feels more at comfort with that
cycle. 6 months is too short a time for gaining mastery over any
technology. Familiarity is maybe. They often have to attend to
heterogenous environment.
3. even at personal level, such frequent update distributions, when
one gets working it is preferred to have a stable work environment
instead of marching an upgrade threadmill.
4. AFAIK, Fedora is mulling about LTS version.
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Regards,
Rajagopal
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