[Mageia-discuss] Mageia

[Sandro Cazzaniga]

Le Sun, 19 Sep 2010 21:50:07 +0200,
Samuel Verschelde <stormi at laposte.net> a écrit :

> 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.

I think not...

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