On 24/04/17 11:31 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
Stefan Seyfried composed on 2017-04-24 20:13 (UTC+0200):
Johannes Kastl compose:
And the differentiation between openSUSE (the project), Tumbleweed and Leap does no longer work if we drop the "leap"...
Seems to work well enough for Fedora...
Fedora's "releases" are much more like rolling releases than releases in the sense most of us use the term. Its releases routinely update a number of high profile packages to latest upstream releases regardless whether any carry an LTS designation. e.g. F25 came out close to 42.2 release 5 months ago with kernel 4.8.6, but now is on 4.10.10; Xorg server was 1.19.0rc, now is at 1.19.3; Plasma was 5.8.1, now 5.9.4.
Somewhere between "Indeed", and "yes-but"..... I am notionally running 42.1 In the kernel side I am at 4.10.12, xorg-x11-server-7.6, and many other packages such as Mozilla, LibreOffice and of course the photography tools I use are up there with the 'latest and greatest'. As for "plasma", well that whole thing has me confused so I'm sticking with what I understand. (I'm sure I'm about to be deluged in advice...) For me, "42.1" is like a rolling release .... as far as the packages that matter to me are concerned[1]. Regular readers will be aware that I've pointed out my use of the Kernel_Stable repository. All these other 'latest and greatest' are also from repositories that I've configured. I'm sure there are people who will shout me down for using this approach, but lets face it, there are many of us who configure extra repositories for a variety of reasons, and I'm sure that getting 'the latest and greatest' for application packages rates high among them. I'm pretty sure that is the case for the few other photo enthusiasts I correspond with. To my mind this makes the ability to point at extra repositories one of the winning facilities of the mainstream versions of Linux. it's not like downloading a random package out of the Microsoft domain for Windows users, these repertoires are either maintained or you can find the owners responsible. I've often contacted repository owners and had meaningful exchanges with them. And to be quite frank they have been more responsive than the supposed "support" of the Big Name/Big Iron support that is run on a Pay-For (and pay a LOT for at that) basis. On top of that this (and the other opensuse lists I've subscribed to) have been more use to me that the Big name/Big Iron support lines were when I was in that the context to be using them. (That major firms are slow to grok this is disappointing.) [1] My debugging of why Linda had problems with setting up thin pools using YaST is a an example. I don't have an updated libstorage because YaST isn't something that matters to me. -- The two pillars of `political correctness' are, a) willful ignorance, and b) a steadfast refusal to face the truth -- George MacDonald Fraser -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org