On 18/06/14 13:41, Constant Brouerius van Nidek wrote:
Followed with interest the discussion about the development of factory, but wondered if Tumbleweed should not have a prominent place between current and factory.
I choose to use Tumbleweed because it would give me a platform which was closely following factory and would even automatically upgrade my system to in the actual case 13.2.
For the moment I have the feeling that we as group are hanging at the end of the development. For example, in Tumbleweed I am still working with KDE 4.12.4 and practically everybody else works with 4.13.
Would be nice to have a general discussion about the place of Tumbleweed and its future.
I made my comment sometime ago about TW, namely that Greg's time and talents could be better utilised (if he so wished of course). I didn't, and still don't, pour cold water on something which he undertook to do but he does have a job and does TW in his spare time (as I understand it). Now, looking at the description of TW- "The Tumbleweed project provides a rolling updates version of openSUSE containing the latest stable versions of all software instead of relying on rigid periodic release cycles. The project does this for users that want the newest, but stable software. "The difference to Factory is that Factory is bleeding edge, often experimental, not yet stabilized software that needs more work to become useful. Tumbleweed contains the latest stable applications and is ready for daily use. "This idea has been discussed in mailing lists for a long time and was conceived into action by Greg Kroah-Hartman." http://en.opensuse.org/Tumbleweed is no longer applicable with Factory having changed (or will change) its purpose. I am not a user of TW (I installed it once but saw nothing of benefit for me which the normal updates/upgrades to KDE, the kernel, whatever, cannot provide for my system) so no doubt those who use TW will find a reason, some application, eg, which is not available in Factory, say - for it to continue as a "spin off" from oS. BC -- Using openSUSE 13.1, KDE 4.13.2 & kernel 3.15.0-1 on a system with- AMD FX 8-core 3.6/4.2GHz processor 16GB PC14900/1866MHz Quad Channel RAM Gigabyte AMD3+ m/board; Gigabyte nVidia GTX660 GPU -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org