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On 17/11/15 08:18, John Andersen wrote:
On 11/16/2015 04:15 AM, Felix Miata wrote:
nlike other distros, openSUSE doesn't rush to induce users to fix what ain't broke. Instead, it notifies when support of a release is ending, You make a distinction without a difference.
There is no real reason to move lock-step from release to release when nothing is broken, nothing is compromised. This is why there are such things as rolling releases. Yet this early end-of-maintenance is, and always has been a significant deterrent.
I'm running 13.2, and its one of the best releases in a long long time. Everything works - once I abandoned BTRFS. I will rue the day when it drops off of maintenance, and I am hoping that either Tumbleweed or Leap will have caught up to it by then.
If not, and both Leap and Tumbleweed remain back level, I'll probably install all source, and stay on 13.2, patching any security issues for a while.
I think its long past time Opensuse stopped running Tumbleweed out of somebody's spare time and declare it official and promise to keep it current.
In a post in Factory I think I already raised this question about Tumbleweed and asking when it is going to come out of the closet and become a legit openSUSE piece of software. But I don't remember ever getting a response about it. I also asked - some time ago actually - why there are ever only 'Releases' of TW which are 4.3GB big but there are never, for examples, patches to be applied using 'zypper patch'. Must be a heck of waste of computer resources producing 4.3GB DVDs almost every day. But it isn't for me to reason why...... BC -- Using openSUSE 13.2, KDE 4.14.9 & kernel 4.3.0-4 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+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org