On 4/15/21 10:48 PM, Tomas Kuchta wrote:
On Thu, Apr 15, 2021, 22:59 Ben Koenig <[email protected]> wrote:
be hasty. You can't rush perfection!
See it's times like this that I distract myself by parsing the
changelogs for statistics.
version | pkg changes during dev cycle
---------------------------------------
13.37 | 3185
14.0 | 3959
14.1 | 6098
14.2 | 7700
15.0 | 40983 AND STILL COUNTING
40,938 updates in almost 5 years. That's a LOT of activity for a dead
software project!
.
Correct terminology for this is rolling distro.
No, that is not correct. Slackware is not a rolling release distro.
Every version is considered stable and receives long term support.
As clearly indicated, the above numbers are for the DEVELOPMENT CYCLE of
each version from 13.37 onwards and does not include post-release
patches. All versions of Slackware receive patches and security updates
post-release. The delay seen with the release of 15.0 is unrelated to
the development model itself and is not cause to make claims that
Slackware is now a rolling release distribution.
Oh and FYI, Debian is not a rolling release distro either. Old versions
are maintained concurrently with the dev branch.
https://wiki.debian.org/DebianOldStable
Windows on the other hand is no longer a stable release OS. They have
moved to a rolling release cycle that mimics the Ubuntu release schedule.
-Ben
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