Søndag den 10. maj 2015 13:32:26 skrev Richard Brown:
On 10 May 2015 at 11:26, Martin Schlander <martin.schlander@gmail.com> wrote:
* a release every 2-3 years
Wrong - we're talking about an openSUSE 'minor release' every year, based on SLE Service Packs (current planning within SUSE expects SLE12 service packs at the end of each calender year) A major release would be about 3 years into the future, around the same time as SUSE building SLE 13. SUSE intend to build SLE 13 by starting with a snapshot of Tumbleweed when they need to start building the next version of the enterprise distro.. I guess I forgot to mention that, but it might go some way to express the reliability Tumbleweed has these days.
If this were to be true you would end up having 3-4 different stable openSUSE releases alive to support at any given time. And in the case of SLE11->SLE12 it would actually have been 5 years between major releases.
* it'll have outdated hardware support compared to any mainstream distro
Wrong - SLE Service Packs always have baked in hardware enablement, and sometimes may include full Kernel version changes. openSUSE Releases will benefit from this work.
If this were true it would mean I could go and get SLE11 with the latest servicepack and it would have hardware support comparable to openSUSE 13.2 for cheapo consumer laptops and other consumer hardware. I find that hard to believe. Guess I should try and get the trial of SLE11SP3 to see how bad things actually are towards the end of SLE major cycle. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org