On Sat, Dec 21, 2024 at 11:33 AM Danilo Pecher via Freedos-devel <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > Why should we update the kernel and FreeCom only with major releases? > Can't we just do that with non-release updates? Linux pushes out a new > kernel revision every 45 minutes and it has worked for many years. >
Because the major release distributions are kind of a big deal. And it turns out that we included a buggy kernel or FreeCOM (major parts of the operating system) because they didn't get enough testing, people will use that buggy version. I might not be this cautious if someone had (just an example) a new version of COMP or EDLIN or CHOICE or FIND to put in at this late stage before FreeDOS 1.4-RC1 (the FreeDOS T2501 test release). Those are all part of the "Base" group, so they are also important, but not in the same way as the kernel. But we do want to include the new kernel and FreeCOM in the monthly test releases, so it can get distributed more broadly. And then it can get tested with everything else that's in the distribution (monthly test releases are basically a "staging ground" for the next version of the distribution). Note that I said this in my earlier reply: >>[..] We can include the new kernel and FreeCOM in the FreeDOS monthly test >>releases after FreeDOS 1.4 is out, so we can have plenty of time to test >>it before we use it in the distribution after that (probably "FreeDOS 2.0" >>since it's a new kernel). _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
