On Sat, Feb 29, 2020 at 04:22:01PM +0100, Frans de Boer wrote:
On 2020-02-29 16:01, Marcus Meissner wrote:
On Sat, Feb 29, 2020 at 02:00:37PM +0100, Frans de Boer wrote:
LS,
Just installed the beta version of leap15.2, just to see if there is anything too upgrade for. Nope, just a new kernel and may some other new or updated packages, but even glibc stays ancient, just as many other packages. Thus keeping leap15.2 as slow as leap15.1 which is 4 times slower then TW for mathematics due to the ancient glibc library and possible the very ancient gcc tool set.
But, maybe I am pessimistic and can someone correct me? It sounds like you would be more happy with Tumbleweeds bleeding edge?
Ciao, Marcus
Very much more happy. I just don't understand why so much effort is made - or in my view energy wasted - to make a "new" distribution, based on years of old/ancient (core) packages. I, however, can understand that one would take a snapshot of TW and iron out some bugs and let that live for some time. That sounds more productive then reverting to 3-4 years old packages.
The thing is, I do like to have a stable distribution in case TW sometimes misfired. But using a distro which uses 3-4- years old packages - and after 8 months being even 4-5 years or more - can only be used as a last resort.
It is a bit of a balance, as you say. We do have the newer compilers (gcc8, gcc9) there however as options. Just not the newer glibc. Ciao, Marcus -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org