[Ilugc] Distro release cycle
- From: a.mani.cms@xxxxxxxxx (A. Mani)
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 07:59:19 +0530
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 4:12 PM, Priyanka Sarkar <efyedit6 at efyindia.com>
wrote:
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.
Short release cycle means considerable wastage of resources esp on
documentation, publicity, promotion and release engineering.
Packages may also break and get dropped at release time.
Distribution Upgrades may not work so smoothly on bleeding edge
distros like Fedora.
Sabayon releases often, but it follows a rolling release model and
that is always better.
Arch Linux again follows a rolling release model.
PCLinuxOS, Mageia need an year.
Do "many" distros follow a 6-month release cycle?
For my purposes, I prefer Debian, Scientific Linux, Kubuntu LTS
In all these dist upgrades happen very smoothly.
Fedora testing is on my torrent box.
In many college/University labs people install Fedora .... these never
get dist-upgraded and remain stuck at ancient versions.
From the point of release engineering, short release cycles + bleeding
edge s/w severely limits scope of customization, quantity of s/w in
repository. *buntu does better because it is based on Debian
Best
A. Mani
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