Boston Linux and Unix InstallFest XXX1 Saturday November 22, 2008

[Dan Ritter]

On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 04:46:42PM -0500, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> The major distros have pretty well gotten it right according their 
> models. But, the one thing I would like to see is a continuous upgrade 
> (well Gentoo does this to some extent). What I mean is that you start 
> with Distro Version a. Along the way your system is upgraded 
> continuously such that when Version b. is officially released, you 
> already have it. rom a pure support point of view it would be a 
> nightmare.

In Debian, you can do this by choosing the Testing or Unstable
versions instead of the Stable version. Near the end of a
release cycle, it's reasonable to run a desktop on Testing.
Otherwise... it's a support nightmare. The answer to any problem
is "file a bug, and hope that it gets fixed soon".

-dsr-

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