No more releases!

[David Gerard]

On 25 November 2010 11:57, Christopher Chan
<christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk> wrote:

> Oh? You make think I need to look again at the processes used by Debian.
> Weird that people would complain about Debian's release speed if it was
> doing things 'right'.


People who use Debian releases complain about the release frequency.
People who run it on the desktop, including a lot of Debian
developers, often run Sid - literally just the latest versions of
*everything*. I can't find the statistic, but it was something like
30-40% of Debian desktops.

Of course, the point is that this is the unstable distro and
everything could break really badly if a package maintainer fouls up,
and that does happen. But it strikes me as a viable desktop option
*if* you have the skills to fix it when (not if) it breaks.

There are slightly less obsessively "now" distros such as Aptosid
(formerly Sidux), which provides ISOs of a working Sid.

And, of course, each version of Ubuntu is branched from Sid as of branching day.

So if Ubuntu is going to rolling releases, I expect it'll look like a
slightly stabilised Sid.