-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 29/04/15 19:41, Michal Kubecek wrote:
On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 02:54:30PM -0300, Cristian Rodríguez wrote:
Neither is every single software product out there.. ;-) Please make your case on what's the exact problem with having only rolling releases.
For me, the main reason is the fact that upgrades necessarily cause various kinds of problems from time to time. It's not only bugs and regressions but also intentional changes in program behaviour, config file syntax or semantics etc. It's acceptable for me to do a distribution upgrade once a year or two (less often on a server) when I reserve enough time to resolve these issues and I expect things to be broken temporarily. Having such issues continuously hitting me at random times in a "rolling upgrades" model is not acceptable for me.
That's why I'm not using Tumbleweed on any of my machines and I do not intend to.
Michal Kubeček
I considered Tumbleweed, but decided against it based on the advice here: https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Tumbleweed I use the NVidia proprietary graphics drivers to control my twin screen display. When I read the following... "When you should keep staying at stable release At this point there is no guarantee to have all additional modules available in the stable release like for Vmware or Virtualbox. And while the Packman Tumbleweed Essential repository attempts to deliver them there is no guarantee they will always succeed due to the incompatibilities with the quickly advancing Linux Kernel. The problems with proprietary Graphics drivers are similar and there is no guarantee they will work tomorrow, even if they do today. If you don't know how to compile your own additional kernel modules and you don't wish to learn or keep a very close eye on what is being updated, please don't use Tumbleweed." and "Special Concerns Third Party Drivers If you have 3rd party kernel modules it is STRONGLY suggested that you not use Tumbleweed. Seriously, it's not worth the pain and extra work, unless you _really_ want to do it. And if you do do it, then again, you are on your own, sorry." ...I accept the advice and stick with the stable releases. And even that is not without the occasional problem. :-( Bob - -- Bob Williams System: Linux 3.16.7-7-desktop Distro: openSUSE 13.2 (x86_64) with KDE Development Platform: 4.14.3 Uptime: 06:00am up 7:55, 3 users, load average: 0.16, 0.05, 0.06 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlVB898ACgkQ0Sr7eZJrmU5dkACfaRXeebTAAauQiC3PxEf4DgAN xLoAnjP80g6gOeMbPkw7LdG9eRmMomfQ =MHte -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org