On 7/06/2016 7:43 PM, David Sommerseth wrote: > On 07/06/16 05:25, Steven Haigh wrote: >> On 2016-06-07 11:14, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: >>> On 6 June 2016 at 17:27, Rupert Kolb >>> <rupert.k...@med.uni-tuebingen.de> wrote: >>>> Thanks for clarifying. I was not aware of this. >>>> >>>> For the short term I downgraded to an older version of samba4 (to get my >>>> system running again). >>>> (And yes, there is an entry in bugzilla for "my" problem. And a link >>>> to an >>>> upstream patch ....) >>>> >>>> In the medium term I'm looking for an other distribution: >>>> It doesn't make sense to have about 10 years of support (in theory), but >>>> updates just every half year. >>> >>> It depends on what you are defining as an update because it means >>> different things. If you are talking about security updates and major >>> problem updates then it is sooner than 6 months. >>> >>>> Then I prefer a system >>>> -- where I have to do upgrades to the next major versions more >>>> frequently, >>>> -- because of merely about 3 years of update support, >>>> ++ but with a more current update policy >>>> ++ and an overall more recent software. >>>> >>> >>> You are asking a lot for free. >> >> If the warm fuzzy feeling of a version number update means a lot to you, >> and you don't care about reinstalling stuff once a year, Fedora may be >> better for you. >> >> Much more bleeding edge with versions, but you'll need more of an admin >> effort to make sure it all works. > > Re-installing seems to be getting resolved these days as well, with dnf > and the system-upgrade feature. I've updated a few machines from Fedora > 22 to Fedora 23 without much hassle. YMMV though. And Fedora other > bleeding edge Linux distributions is generally not as stable in a longer > term perspective as the enterprise Linux distributions.
I agree with everything you said - however if a version number is that important, then its probably a fair choice. -- Steven Haigh Email: net...@crc.id.au Web: https://www.crc.id.au Phone: (03) 9001 6090 - 0412 935 897
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