On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 20:46, Michael Adams wrote: > I am making a guess that we are talking home use here? > > With todays modern hard disks, space is quite cheap (under $5US/Gbyte). How > about a three version install. (4-6GB each and 2 /home partitions on a 40GB > no problems). With jpg's, mp3's, ogg's etc on a seperate disk or backed up to > CD-R. You can have: > - Your stable version > - Your fiddle version (Stable with custom mods, new add-ons, and experiments) > - Mandrakes upcoming release/ bleeding edge/ whizzbang version. > This is my aim soon as i buy the disk. I think Tom does this well. He has > full cooker as one version IIRC.
Hard Drives are cheap... if it's the other guy buying it. (and those dang IDE monsters don't fit in my laptop.) I for one would like to be productive WITH my software not TO my software. Heck with a one year life and a new version every 6 months, I rarely get a chance to do just that. In the past I agree the advances were made so fast that you did have to publish or perish when it came to new software. Now, maybe the original posters concept has more merit. 9.1 is about to come out and 9.0 is really just starting to get stable. (the bain of 0 versions.) I'm really not sure what the answer is here. But this I do know. IF Mandrake is going to be on the Desktop of business everywhere (Which it is more than qualified to do.), something has to give. It could well be time to consider the idea of a distro a year. Heck Debian hasn't released in how many years? OpenBSD releases what every 18 to 24 months? Or maybe a concept like FreeBSD. 3 branches Stable Release and Current ... or in other terms It works well enough for production. We think it's ready, and good luck.*grin* James > > Unfortunately bleeding edge software is often created for the latest greatest > version kernel/compiler/window manager. > > On Tue, 11 Feb 2003 12:31, Robert Wideman wrote: > > >> This is probably a difficult ask. But what I would like to see > > >> is a longer time between versions (eg. 12+ months) for the regular > > >> desktop edition, and a simple, reliable method for updating > > >> packages in the meantime for those who want to (for all those > > >> things that don't qualify for Mandrake's Update facility). > > > > I totally agree with this. I cant stand the fact that an OS is released > > even every 2 years. I think they should stick with updates as opposed to > > version release and just do the updates. But then again i have heard about > > ppl having NO problems with release UPGRADES. I havent tried it myself. I > > dont believe in OS upgrades (then again that is a MS issue). > > > > >> I often grab things from cooker - generally source RPMs - to > > >> install myself. But as time goes by, depencancy issues and library > > >> incompatibilities increase until I give up and simply wait for the > > >> next Mandrake upgrade. It would be nice if this was different. > > > > I will have to try this out myself on the updates and such. But i > > personally wait till they come out from the stable releases unless it is > > something like DVDRip or something like that that is bleeding edge new. > > > > Rob
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