On 2/18/21 1:49 AM, L A Walsh wrote:
On 2021/02/16 23:30, Thorsten Kukuk wrote:
Seems you mix up Tumbleweed as rolling release distribution with openSUSE Leap/SLE as stable distribution. In the first case, you have always the newest stuff, in the later case, you have stable interfaces, with the drawback, this is old code. Windows gets around it by having multiple so's -- installing the 'so' that each program compiled with. Tumbleweed tries the best to provide all the new, shiny features in a stable way, Leap and SLE tries eveything to stay compatible without providing all the new features.
That answers my question about how many corporations are using TW.
Though to be honest, I want to update my linux system about as often as I change Win OS's. Win 7 was out for about 12 years w/support. I was an early adopter and am still using it. But never was Win7 keeping me from using new programs (well until recently). How many progs from an opensuse release from 2008 would work on a system from today?
Well the tarball for setserial hasn't changed in atleast 14 years, according to the changelog it hasn't changed version since 2000, the only changes in the last 10 years were disabling init scripts and moving stuff into /usr so atleast some :-) -- Simon Lees (Simotek) http://simotek.net Emergency Update Team keybase.io/simotek SUSE Linux Adelaide Australia, UTC+10:30 GPG Fingerprint: 5B87 DB9D 88DC F606 E489 CEC5 0922 C246 02F0 014B