On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 4:12 PM, Priyanka Sarkar <[email protected]> wrote: > We thought of coming up a good story on the distro release time span. > Our question is 'With many distros going for a six-monthly release > cycle, do you think the release cycles of distros are too short? (And > users don't have to upgrade on a frequent basis?) ' > > What do you think on this? Would really appreciate if you share your > views elaborately.
Short release cycle means considerable wastage of resources esp on documentation, publicity, promotion and release engineering. Packages may also break and get dropped at release time. Distribution Upgrades may not work so smoothly on bleeding edge distros like Fedora. Sabayon releases often, but it follows a rolling release model and that is always better. Arch Linux again follows a rolling release model. PCLinuxOS, Mageia need an year. Do "many" distros follow a 6-month release cycle? For my purposes, I prefer Debian, Scientific Linux, Kubuntu LTS In all these dist upgrades happen very smoothly. Fedora testing is on my torrent box. In many college/University labs people install Fedora .... these never get dist-upgraded and remain stuck at ancient versions. >From the point of release engineering, short release cycles + bleeding edge s/w severely limits scope of customization, quantity of s/w in repository. *buntu does better because it is based on Debian Best A. Mani A. Mani CU, ASL, AMS, CLC, CMS http://www.logicamani.in _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc ILUGC Mailing List Guidelines: http://ilugc.in/mailinglist-guidelines
