-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 2015-04-30 15:56, Simon Lees wrote:
My main problem with having a rolling release is my PC at work, It's important that its secure so I do security updates often, but its also important that it doesn't break when I’m in the middle of important projects and up against deadlines.
Yep.
As a developer its also important that it has relatively up to date software on it because that's what I need to run some tools.
Aha. True.
The 8-12 month cycle is ideal for this scenario it means I can wait till a few weeks after the release for any niggles to go away, then sometime in the next couple of months when I have some downtime between projects I can do the upgrade normally starting in some sort of VM because I need to deal with weird old stuff like NIS check that everything will probably still work then upgrade my machine and if I loose half a day to a day fixing stuff and doing it there’s not really any big deal. On a rolling distro I can't get security updates without also getting new versions of packages that may break stuff when I can't set aside time to fix it.
Same here.
I also run 13.2 on my laptop at home because for the select few pieces of software I like the latest version of I just add a development repo, when I used to run the old tumbleweed a year or so back I got sick of constantly having large downloads of stuff like libre office and also kernel updates were painful when running a older NVIDIA card 6150m that needs a legacy version of the proprietary drivers.
Yep.
So for me the end of releases would probably result in me being a lot less involved in openSUSE just because its not practical to run rolling releases on my systems and I don't want the hassle.
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