[Mageia-dev] How will be the realese cycle?

[Fernando Parra]

On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 08:20:40 -0400
Sinner from the Prairy <sinnerbofh-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> Fernando Parra wrote:
> 
> > (Finally, it would not be as strict versions of certain components. If,
> > for example morning out mageia 2010 (for instance) and the day after
> > Firefox 4.0 comes out, you do not run the 3.6.x version with all the
> > time,)
> > 
> > That's very clear, these users are trying to say: "We want a different
> > model, but we want a stable distro"
> 
> As we have been saying over and over again, this only indicates zero 
> knowledge of backports repositories.
> 
> We should publicize more Backports.
> 
> 
> Salut,
> Sinner
> 
> 

And I shall reply over and over again, backports isn't a solution, maybe it's a technical solution, but it isn't The Solution.

The end users need to do less than now for to get new versions of their favourites applications.

Mageia needs to offer more than other distros, much more, in a different way. If we aren't to be able to make a completely new concept, we are in a serious risk to become in other distro at that sea called GNU / Linux.
-- 
Fernando Parra <gato2707 at yahoo.com.mx>