On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 3:21 PM, Eric Duncan <eduncan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Monday, June 26, 2017 at 1:27:19 PM UTC-4, cooloutac wrote: > > > > upgrading to the latest release from previous version didn't go well for > me. There are instructions on how to do so and maybe I did something > wrong. But I had to reinstall fresh and restore backups which went smooth. > > > > Most Qubes users are paranoids and probably wipe their drive > occasionally anyways. > > > > I wouldn't consider Qubes a rolling release Its one big huge version > update. Next Qubes version I think will be 4.0. > > Yeah, I don't plan to upgrade. This will be another clean install. > > That's what I am trying to get.. 4.0, or the latest "tip" of Qubes that > everyone is using for development and submitting updated packages for. > > Would I get "4.0" from just a fresh install, and then enabling the > Testing/SecurityTesting repos and upgrading? > > Or, is Qubes not setup to roll the latest from a tip? But instead, there > are separate branches for each release (3.1, 3.2, 4.0, etc) and a "Testing" > branch for each one of them? > > That's kind of how Kali used to do it (I think) which annoyed some of us > that wanted to contribute, but our contributions got lost in the older > versions or wasn't merged to the latest branches, etc. Then Kali switched > to Rolling releases, with a single Tip/Testing branch - and snapshots (with > branches) for official releases. > > > > Ps: Heh, paranoids - wiping often. I did that a lot w/Windows, mostly > cause of instability after 6mos. > > Rolling releases work well with more mature systems like Arch. But each new major version of Qubes included important architectural changes. So what could be passed easily to the next was only the backup of applVMs. Also these major changes were mostly motivated by security reasons. So why keep something that was generated in a less secure environment? Best -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "qubes-users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to qubes-users@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > msgid/qubes-users/0b19516a-f1cb-490c-bbdf-e369ea769355%40googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to qubes-users@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/CAPzH-qDSEpvmV-5MmBCrCFnJnpna6rKF4C0c%2BEQzV6oObZvyGA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
