Hello, Am Montag, 23. Juni 2014 schrieb Stephan Kulow:
And for this I need your help: why did you switch to Factory or why do you consider it? What are the selling points of Factory? What killer features are in Factory that we don't have in 13.1?
Good questions ;-) My reasons to switch to Factory were (in random order): - I do beta tests since years (starting with 9.2), but why should I wait for the beta release? - Factory replaces the old, boring bugs with exciting new ones ;-) (luckily the number of critical [1] new bugs is very low) - even better: Bug fixes arrive in Factory much faster than in a released version (including fixes for minor bugs, which aren't worth a maintenance release) - I always get the newest software BTW: /var/log/zypp/history tells me: 2011-01-06 18:26:27|radd |factory-oss| http://download.opensuse.org/factory/repo/oss/ I knew I'm using Factory since "quite some time", but > 3 years? Really? Even without the staging we have now, critical bugs were very rare. In those rare cases, a fix or at least a workaround where available quickly. In other words: running factory is usually painless. Nevertheless I wouldn't recommend Factory to newbies - in the rare cases of critical bugs, it's good to know what you are doing ;-) The only rule I honor is "never change a running system" when I know I'll need my system for something important in the next days. In most cases "zypper dup" won't break anything - but if you have to give a presentation the next day, you shouldn't call for Murphy too much and avoid upgrading to the latest bugs^WFactory ;-) Regards, Christian Boltz [1] "critical" on my personal scale - if something I use daily is completely broken, then it's obviously critical for me ;-) --
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