On Sun, 2022-07-31 at 20:26 -0300, George N. White III wrote: > Debian unstable is a rolling release. > https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioners/how-google-got-to-rolling-linux-releases-for-desktops > says: " In the future, we are planning to work even more closely with > upstream Debian and contribute more of our internal patches to > maintain the Debian package ecosystem."
Nice to read them articulate how ongoing major updates are a pain (it's not just us end-users who hate it). And amusing to read their internal Linux was called Goobuntu (if you're an Australian of a certain age, calling someone a goober was akin to calling them an social pariah and a fool). Harking back to my pre-IBM-compatible days I used Amigas, which came pre-installed with their OS and was rarely ever updated. They lasted many years, many people would have bought new and better hardware long before considering trying to change the OS software. Various system files got updated over time usually by simply replacing a library file, but sometimes an alternative thing was introduced and many things used that instead (e.g. the file-requesters for loading and saving your files could be the original basic one, or use an alternative fancier one). That avoided breakage, but also allowed improvements. But there weren't many OS updates, it wasn't really needed. It was all about the applications. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.71.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 28 15:37:28 UTC 2022 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
