Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-marketing (320 mails)

[Will Stephenson <wstephenson@xxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 01 September 2010 14:25:28 Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> On Wednesday 01 September 2010 14:23:42 fabrice wrote:
> > Le Wednesday 01 September 2010 14:08:06, Andreas Jaeger a écrit :
> > > What do you mean?
> > > * every 8 months a new release?
> > > * every month a snapshot
> >
> > I meant 8 months a new release, i know that suse is not a rolling
> > distribution. Is this kind of cycle mandatory to be up to date for the
> > potentials users/customers ?
>
> We found it convenient to have a real fixed cycle.
>
> Fedora/Ubuntu have 6 months and considered too short while 12 months too
> long.
>
> You need to update the distribution regularly for new hardware support.
>
> > Is a long term version in the oven ?
>
> That was proposed as part of one strategy proposal.  There was some people
> that wanted to start a long term version but that was only in the planning
> phase.  There were enough interest to have it but not enough interest to do
> it.

AJ, if you didn't find anyone to do the work in this meta-discussion, I can 
hammer something out now.

Will

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