[Mageia-discuss] Mageia

[Felix Martos]

I hope Mageia will be a server suitable distribution, and even be able
to receive certifications from software companies for their products,
so a relese system is necessary... But for a desktop version, having a
rolling versioning system could be affordable


Hasta Pronto

--
 Félix Martos Trenado




2010/9/19 Samuel Verschelde <stormi at laposte.net>:
> Le dimanche 19 septembre 2010 21:41:14, HacKurx a écrit :
>> First of all excuse me for my English.
>>
>> I am one who thinks that rolling release distributions sounds the future.
>> Why?
>> Because the user no longer has to worry about are system and benefits from
>> recent versions of software.
>>
>> Now on libraries, xorg etc.... it may very well release a new version for
>> inclusion.
>> So imagine every six months a new version but in the meantime the software
>> most used to constantly updated in a repository (this is equivalent to
>> ubuntu ppa in some ways but stable and under control).
>>
>> So I think it would be nice to create a repository "rolling release"
>> containing software commonly used example: firefox, vlc, liferea,
>> thunderbird, mplayer.
>>
>> As you will not break the system because no library, xorg etc. will be
>> updated.
>>
>> +1 repository "rolling release" commonly used for software (vlc, smplayer
>> etc ...)
>>
>
> I have no experience with rolling releases, but as I hope that Mageia will, like Mandriva Linux, remain suitable for desktop, server, and enterprise use. So I really hope each version will be stable, maintained and thoroughly tested. I'm not sure that a rolling release permits that.
>
> Regards
>
> Samuel
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