Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (280 mails)

[Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 02:14:04PM -0500, Greg Freemyer wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 1:46 PM, Kim Leyendecker
> <kimleyendecker@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Am 01.02.2011 19:42, schrieb Stephan Kulow:
> > > I think Tumbleweed can bring a new class of users to openSUSE
> >
> > full ack. I惴 using Tumbleweed a little bit (see my signature) and I惴 really
> > proud that openSUSE have Tumbleweed.
> >
> > Has Ubuntu a rolling release? No!
> > Has Fedora a rolling release? No!
> > Has Mandriva a rolling release? No!
> >
> > I think, if Greg and the others manage the project carefully, it will become
> > an important part of openSUSE.
> >
> > But how says, that Tumbleweed is a _independent_ distro? I ever thought,
> > that it _isn愒_ an independent distro?!
> > (Greg?!)
>
> I believe the goal of Tumbleweed is to be an independent "release".
> Not an independent "distro".

It's not a "release" at all, as it's a moving target, constantly
changing.

> Thus once it is fully rolled, I could upgrade to Tumbleweed once, then
> just get my rolling upgrades every now and then and not have to change
> my repositories every 8 months like I do now.

Well, you might still have to change your repo every major release, but
that should be pretty trivial overall :)

thanks,

greg k-h
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