Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (146 mails)

[Gerald Pfeifer <gp@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 3 Feb 2009, Birger Kollstrand wrote:
> The basic level would then be the operating system, and that would
> define the naming of the release. So the release of the openSUSE 11.2
> is connected to a specific kernel.

As some of us tend to say, the kernel tends to be overrated. ;-)

Yes, it provides the name to Linux or GNU/Linux, if you will, but from
a desktop user perspective, for example, I should hardly notice if the
kernel changes whereas an update to Firefox, OpenOffice or the desktop
environment of choice is much more noticably and possibly distracting.


You idea as such is interesting, though!  I guess I'd just move what you
call "basic level" a bit upwards and potentially give more leeway on the
kernel side.  (The toolchain and glibc might be other candidates for such
a "basic level".)

Gerald
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