On Wednesday 01 September 2010 14:23:42 fabrice wrote: > Le Wednesday 01 September 2010 14:08:06, Andreas Jaeger a écrit : > > What do you mean? > > * every 8 months a new release? > > * every month a snapshot > > I meant 8 months a new release, i know that suse is not a rolling > distribution. Is this kind of cycle mandatory to be up to date for the > potentials users/customers ?
We found it convenient to have a real fixed cycle.
Fedora/Ubuntu have 6 months and considered too short while 12 months too long.
You need to update the distribution regularly for new hardware support.
> Is a long term version in the oven ?
That was proposed as part of one strategy proposal. There was some people
that wanted to start a long term version but that was only in the planning
phase. There were enough interest to have it but not enough interest to do
it.
Andreas
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