Op vrijdag 01 oktober 2010 22:41:59 schreef Olivier Méjean: > Le vendredi 1 octobre 2010 21:38:14, nicolas vigier a écrit : > > On Fri, 01 Oct 2010, Olivier Méjean wrote: > > > What about a rolling distribution ? As an user (just plain user) i do > > > not think that installing a distribution is a goal, just a mean to use > > > my computer, so i wish i could not spend time installing a > > > distribution every 6 months or every year. > > > > And you prefer to spend time to update your distribution every day > > instead of every year ? > > I update my distribution if not every day every week each time there is an > update, but moreover i need to update every 6 months if i want to have > latest versions. So right now the point is updating every day and > upgrading to new version every 6 months (and truely, i am still using > 2010). > > The question of time is a wrong question, i spend time upgrading every day > (well just clicking the applet, typing password and let's go !) > > I don't know how often Mageia will be released, and how long all the > versions will be maintened, i am not sure that a fixed release is the best > choice. My feeling is that there is a huge hope, maybe not among > developers, for a great rolling distro (understand great by with many > contributors) that could emerge among all the fixed released distribution. > > The point i want to emphasis is that i still do not understand why my > Mandriva 2010 offers me OOo 3.1 while Mandriva 2010.1 offers OOo 3.2. Can > OOo 3.2 work on Mandriva 2010 ? It also means that Mandriva should look > for patch for OOo 3.1 and OOo 3.2 to maintain those two versions (and by > the way, on a Mandriva 2009.1 you have OOo 3.1.1-0.3, on 2010 you have OOo > 3.1.1-2.5 and on 2010.1 you have OOo 3.2-4), Mageia will face the same > problem. For me, as a user, it would be simplier to provide just one > version, the latest. Update can be delayed, time to test. But i really do > not understand why OOo 3.2 is not available for Mandriva 2010 nor 2009.1. > That's maybe a question of time of compilation, take long time to create > OOo rpms, it takes 3 times more to create OOo rpms for 3 different edition > (or is there any technical issue that forbid OOo 3.2 on Mandriva 2010 and > 2009.1 ?). I also doubt that OOo 3.1 is still in development, neither > seems OOo 3.2. > > So i would not like the same for Mageia. It is a new project, we shall not > need to re-take everything from Mandriva, but rather innovate and there i > guess there is a way to innovate. Maybe a core part of the distribution > could be in fixed release, the rest in rolling release.
i don't understand, if you click the applet every time there's an update, then when there's a new version, the you also click the applet and it updates... there isn't any real difference from a user pov...