[OpenIndiana-discuss] Rolling release considered harmful

Yassine Chaouche a.chaouche at algerian-radio.dz
Tue May 4 13:00:57 UTC 2021


Le 5/4/21 à 1:54 PM, Aurélien Larcher a écrit :
> On Tue, May 4, 2021 at 2:40 PM Judah Richardson 
> <judahrichardson at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, May 4, 2021, 07:25 Yassine Chaouche 
>> <a.chaouche at algerian-radio.dz> wrote:
>>> Le 5/4/21 à 5:24 AM, Judah Richardson a écrit :
>>>> From a practical perspective, I don't think OI has the option you 
>>>> want. It's a rolling release distribution. I 
>>> So, just to be clear for outsiders like myself. I thought Hipster 
>>> was the Rolling Release Branch. I assumed OI had another fixed 
>>> release branche, but apparently there's not ? 
>> Hipster is the only release mentioned on the blog in over 2 years and 
>> the only release listed on the download page. I had the same question 
>> when I 1st downloaded OI, but it was pretty obvious to me from the 
>> above that Hipster is the main effort, and so that's what I 
>> installed. Don't fight the paradigm, as I keep saying. 
> Upgrades of Ubuntu LTS break more than OI on my server and without any 
> possibility of rollback to a previous boot environment...
Upgrades != updates.

-- Yassine



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