On Wed, 2011-05-11 at 11:13 -0400, Brian K. White wrote:
[Rolling release concerns...]
Well said Brian On 05/11/2011 05:52 PM, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
As a result, I will probably have to re-install the OS. But what to choose? I was actually considering Tumbleweed. But your arguments made perfect sense. I have been wondering what the mechanism is to choose which packages will become a part of Tumbleweed. I was guessing that using Tumbleweed would require that you constantly install any Tumbleweed updates as they become available so that your system does not get too different and thus difficult to update. So, at any given point in time, there is the 'current' Tumbleweed, and updated packages must be added in some pre-defined order. I wonder what happens if you want to install a previously-not-installed package that was added to Tumbleweed at some other point than you are adding it to your system?
I sure would stay away from Tumbleweed on a server installation, and honestly installing 11.4 on my servers is a definite "no go" case. Experience taught me not to install the new version for a minimum of 6 months ( oops there the 1/3 of the lifecycle is gone) as it has always been buggy and on production servers I do not need the extra load of bughunting. Even on my desktop I am still using 11.3+ ( plus is the choice of repos so I have 2.6.39-rc5 kernel, KDE4.6.3, xorg-x11-7.6-167 ) 11.4 is living in virtualbox to see its progress and stability. This has always been the case with the new releases Evergreen, IMO is the only easy solution if one wants to keep a discontinued openSUSE running yet it also has its weaknesses as the OBS repos for many of the packages are removed when a release is discontinued so if one was using anything say from obs://security:XXX project that is gone as evergreen currently does not support this yet. On the other hand as Brian mentioned I also recently started thinking to move my servers to another distro with a longer lifecyle and in addition to the ones Brian mentioned I also have Debian in mind. Togan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org