On Friday, July 18, 2014 10:18:44 AM jcsl wrote:
Hi.
Just a simple question: is this new Factory going to replace the current openSUSE or is it going to be a separate branch?
I don't think so. Factory have much more entity now. Is a distribution by itself, but a new release of openSUSE will eventually use Factory as a base.
Sorry, but I don't get it clear yet. Rumors saying than openSUSE will be a rolling release distro are starting to appear in blogs like when Tumbleweed came to life.
There is a real thing here: Factory was always a rolling release, but was a bit break for some uses cases. Now Factory is more stable and, for example, I can do my daily work on it with some confidence. And also I know that there is a clear way to increase this confidence via more collaboration in openQA and package development.
It took a long time to let the people understand that Tumbleweed wasn't the rolling release of openSUSE but a repository with a bunch of packages updated and well tested.
I also learned that there are multiple definitions of what is a rolling distribution (via Wikipedia, of course).
I think this should be clarified ASAP and wiki pages should be updated (if they aren't updated yet) to reflect what this new Factory will bring to us.
Greetings.
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