On 2006/12/27 20:17 (GMT-0900) John Andersen apparently typed:
On Wednesday 27 December 2006 17:09, Felix Miata wrote:
I think Mandriva's switch to 12 months from 6 was a mistake.
Not for people who have something to do with their machines other than install operating systems.
I would vote for 1 year releases and a three year maintenance window. Kernel development has slowed down somewhat and having new releases as frequently as in the past seems less needed.
I'd be fine with that, if maintenance included all types of bug fixes rather than just security fixes, but that's just not the way it is with either SUSE or Mandriva. It's bad enough seeing bugs reported 2 releases past still not fixed in the most recent release without waiting twice as long for new releases to not have those fixes. New features I could do without for 5 years, but not brokenness to trip over daily. Monthly upgrades wouldn't be too often for me if real bug fixes were the reason why rather than feature bloat. -- "Let your conversation be always full of grace." Colossians 4:6 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org