On 16/01/2019 14:22, Martin Wilck wrote:
That's unfortunate, sure. Which Ubuntu did you test? To be fair against Leap, it should have been 18.04.x, not 18.10.
This highlights a conflict, which I think merits more discussion. There are different strategies to distro lifetimes. RHEL/SLE: you pay enough, we'll keep it working for as long as you keep paying. :-) Fedora: releases are about twice a year. You get updates for approximately 1 year after release. There are no stable releases. To keep in support, keep updating. Source: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Release_Life_Cycle This is also the model for most other smaller distros: periodic releases, and some time after the new one comes out, the older ones stop getting updates. Ubuntu: there's a long-term support release every even year. In between there are short-term releases every 6 months. The LTS releases gets a backported stack of kernel, X.11 and some drivers from the current short-term release, about every 6 months, some time after the short-term release come out to allow it time to stabilise. Source: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/LTSEnablementStack Tumbleweed: it's always current. Leap: you get a point release about once a year, roughly when SLE gets a service pack. Major releases are about every 3-4 years, approximately when SLE gets major releases. Source: https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Roadmap Ubuntu has this slightly odd dual-life-cycle thing, which makes it a bit more production-friendly. No other distro I know of has this. Even the prominent Ubuntu-based distros -- e.g. Mint, Bodhi, Elementary -- tend to use the Ubuntu LTS (and updates) and base their meta-distros on top of that. openSUSE doesn't _have_ a short-lifecycle stable-release version from which to derive what Ubuntu refers to as "hardware enablement stacks". Perhaps it needs to devise a substitute strategy? That's a different discussion from the one we're having here, though. -- Liam Proven - Technical Writer, SUSE Linux s.r.o. Corso II, Křižíkova 148/34, 186-00 Praha 8 - Karlín, Czechia Email: lproven@suse.com - Office telephone: +420 284 241 084 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org