Am Mittwoch, 5. August 2015, 23:17:46 schrieb Bjoern Voigt:

> My personal opinion: Having 'bleeding edge' packages is a good

> strategy in relation to security. I prefer bleeding edge packages

> over back-ported security patches.

This is basically security by (version) numbers. In the end it does not really matter if its backported or new Versions. The only thing missing in backported versions are new features (and even those can in exceptions be backported)

>

> If course security is not the only objective for a Linux

> distribution. Functionality, stability, the amount of packages etc.

> are important too. I liked the old development model of openSUSE.

So did I. But if I can't be maintained what is the point?

> Some years ago we had 4 openSUSE releases each year.

I'm following openSUSE since 2006 and we never had 4 Releases in a year

> openSUSE Tumbleweed and Leap are both big steps in opposite directions.

> Currently I am not happy with both for production systems.

Tumbleweed on Productionsystems I can understand but Leap - we are not even in the first Beta Version and you already judge it as insufficient?

> On my

> personal desktops I will probably go to Tumbleweed.

So do I

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