14.10 Utopic Unicorn Updates

[Tom H]

On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 11:52 AM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8 August 2014 11:49, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Debian testing doesn't have a rolling-release model. There have been
>> some proposals to make it so but they didn't pan out.
>
> I should have said "unstable", as in "sid", rather than "testing". Sorry.

There's more churn in unstable but it's also a "victim" of the freeze
because developers can't upload packages to unstable unless they're
destined for testing and they're fixing a bug. Thta's why even Ubuntu
non-LTS falls behind upstream from time to time. The syncs from Debian
are for minor version bumps.

The last freeze lasted 9 or 10 months. I don't know anyone who's
running sid or sidux but I had a colleague who use to run sidux and
his system was trashed after one of the Debian releases and unstable
received a flood of new packages.


Gentoo's a rolling release but you have to get used to the
install-time compilation delays (compared to a binary distro) and not
mess around too much with your USE flags unless you know what you're
doing.