[Mageia-discuss] Mageia

[Maarten Vanraes]

Op zondag 19 september 2010 21:50:07 schreef Samuel Verschelde:
> 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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