What do you think of the community/official split?
Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on January 23, 2004 06:23 AM
I have been an avid Mandrake supporter for years, but the following has me concerned:
"The "community" version is expected to be the first major Linux distribution that includes the 2.6 kernel. Two or three months later, the "official" version will also incorporate the new kernel.
Bancilhon expects to see updated versions of the "community version" every six months, while the "official" version will be on an 18 month release cycle."
Basically, I take this to be that they will use the community version as a way to beta-test their real distribution. The paying customers get the good stuff, the rest of us deal with the bugs and have to be on a constant upgrade treadmill because security updates will no longer be provided after six months.
Very disturbing, IF this is indeed the case.
Six months is not nearly enough time for an operating system to stop being supported. This is just plain ridiculous and IT is exactly the same thing that Red Hat is doing with Fedora, which at the time I found appalling. Only difference is that Fedora actually has a fedora-legacy project that seeks to have longer-maintenance cycles.
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What do you think of the community/official split?
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on January 23, 2004 06:23 AM"The "community" version is expected to be the first major Linux distribution that includes the 2.6 kernel. Two or three months later, the "official" version will also incorporate the new kernel.
Bancilhon expects to see updated versions of the "community version" every six months, while the "official" version will be on an 18 month release cycle."
Basically, I take this to be that they will use the community version as a way to beta-test their real distribution. The paying customers get the good stuff, the rest of us deal with the bugs and have to be on a constant upgrade treadmill because security updates will no longer be provided after six months.
Very disturbing, IF this is indeed the case.
Six months is not nearly enough time for an operating system to stop being supported. This is just plain ridiculous and IT is exactly the same thing that Red Hat is doing with Fedora, which at the time I found appalling. Only difference is that Fedora actually has a fedora-legacy project that seeks to have longer-maintenance cycles.
What do you folks think?
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