[OpenIndiana-discuss] Rolling release considered harmful

[Judah Richardson]

On Tue, May 4, 2021 at 8:35 AM Toomas Soome via openindiana-discuss <
openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org> wrote:

>
> > 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?:)
>
The semantics vary by OS and ecosystem.

Personally: I use "update" to refer to any version number advance &
"upgrade" to refer to any SKU or service/subscription level advance. So,
e.g. I would consider going from Ubuntu 20.10 to 21.04 an update, and going
from Zabbix free to Zabbix paid an upgrade.

But in practice to avoid confusion in online discussions I use them to mean
what passing either update or upgrade to the package manager of the OS in
question does.

>
> Rgds,
> Toomas
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