On Fri, 25 Jul 2014, John Jason Jordan wrote:
I have looked longingly at distros that use a rolling release,
because I agree that periodic dist-upgrades are a pain.
The thing with rolling releases, in my opinion, is that they're pretty
good at making sure you have a fairly recently libblah.so.3, but they
have real problems when something core is changed -- like going from
System V init scripts to systemd, or switching base filesystems from
ext4 to zfs/btrfs. I suspect you *could* do those upgrades in place,
but I'd guess that the time commitment would be huge.
All of which isn't to say that I look forward to upgrading to the
newest CentOS, Debian, or Ubuntu release -- but knowing that I'll have
to do it has, over the years, helped me understand clearly what data I
need to roll forward and what I can jettison.
--
Paul Heinlein
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