Quote: nicolas vigier wrote on Thu, 07 October 2010 17:16 > > 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 ?
I don't want to exclude anyone, but Mandriva (apart from MES which is a separate product) never was the best choice for a long-term stable server install, sure some people used it but it was a small minority compared to those that use Centos/Redhat, Suse or even Ubuntu LTS. We have debated that already earlier in this thread, most people that need Centos/Redhat like stability also need long-term support which we cannot provide anyway (at least for now). > And what makes you think end-users want new versions rather than > stability ? Like I mentioned in my previous post (and others here confirmed), many years of spending on Linux related forums. Most non-geek users just want to be able to install new app versions, not upgrade the whole distro. > I know a lot of people that don't care about new versions, but are > very > annoyed when an update breaks something. Distro upgrades tend to break a lot more things. > 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. I'm repeating myself: we don't want to upgrade the core packages like KDE between releases, only apps without child-dependencies and where the upgrade is not a major upgrade with incomaptible changes. -- Mageia ML Forum Gateway: http://mageia.linuxtech.net/forum/