On Thu, 07 Oct 2010, Tux99 wrote: > > > But what about the people who don't need new versions, but want stability > > and security updates ? > > As many people here have said already, version updates doesn't > automatically mean instability and/or incompatibilities, in fact such a > risk is very small, as anyone who has used backports in Mdv can confirm. > > Someone who needs absolute stability (for example for important > servers), will always use other distros that specifically focus on that, > like Centos.
They could use Mandriva for good stability (not absolute). Why do you want to exclude them from Mageia ? > We cannot cater to everyone, I'm assuming that Mageia is primarily an > end-user desktop distro (like Mandriva was) so we might as well improve > it for that purpose. And what makes you think end-users want new versions rather than stability ? I know a lot of people that don't care about new versions, but are very annoyed when an update breaks something. For example me, if I setup a computer for my parents, they ask me when something is broken so I need to spend some time to fix it. And they don't care about new versions, they can wait 6 months or 1 year to have the latest KDE.