[OpenIndiana-discuss] Rolling release considered harmful

[Toomas Soome]

> On 4. May 2021, at 16:01, Yassine Chaouche <a.chaouche at algerian-radio.dz> wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 

Hm, what is the difference?:)

Rgds,
Toomas