So you want all openSUSE users to upgrade every 8 months? That is impossible. 2 years is acceptable and sometimes even that is too short.
No, What I am saying is let the enthusiast upgrade every 8 months, it's what we do anyway. Joe consumer doesn't even like to upgrade every 10 years. It was MS that brought out Vista not consumer demand. XP sp3 could have improved security just as much as Vista "uhm" does.
Another use of e.g. 10.1 is as a additional repo for SLES10, because you don't get all the software you need on a Server from the SLES, SLED and SLE SDK repos.
I'm not advocating the removal of the buildservice tree or the application repository. just let the download tree for the OS and the security\patch updates die when the next interim is available.
You said x.1 should be x.0+SP. But it is hopefully not. A SP for a SLE product does not change the kernel and probably glibc. A newer openSUSE version always had newer Kernel, glibc, gcc, X, KDE, ...
SP's for SLE have little if nothing to do with the openSUSE interim releases. The interim\new releases from any distro really are not much more than "look what we learned last year" updates from the entire Linux community.
A possible way to go is enlarging the time between releases even more. We already moved from 6 months to 8 months. Maybe even more.
I disagree, extending the release schedule actually retards bug fixing because a smaller group of users (the internal team) is working on them. The team should merely be relieved of the burden of applying fixes to older versions of the kernel\glibc\X\KDE\Gnome that came with the previous interim. Because as you point out, the interim may have a different kernel and a security fix for a x.1 that may need to be applied to an x.0 may need a completely different solution to solve the same issue. This wastes valuable development cycles. -- James Tremblay aka, SLEducator Director of Technology Newmarket School District Newmarket NH 03857 Founder http://en.opensuse.org/education "Let's make a difference!" Registered Linux user #440182 CNE 3,4,5 CLP 9 CLE in training ;) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org