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Just to echo this, I do much the same with Slackware. I use -current on some machines. Every time a release is pending, work on -current slows down (or does it

by fuzzix 14y ago

Just to echo this, I do much the same with Slackware. I use -current on some machines. Every time a release is pending, work on -current slows down (or does it ramp up?) and it is stablised. It's essentially a development release rather than being explicitly labelled "rolling" (and, in fact, its use as a day-to-day distribution is generally considered A Bad Thing if you're not a Slackware developer/tester). It just happens to have the bonus of also being a pretty bleeding-edge, yet stable rolling release. So, it's possible to achieve both a rolling release and "stable", versioned releases.

mhurron 14y ago
Slackware-current is basically as stable as Fedora is at any given time so it's hard to really discourage its use. Honestly, Slackware is almost a RHEL/Fedora type ecosystem when just taking about official packages. Slackware-current gets new stuff, Slackware releases only get bug fixes, and not too many of them at that.
- jackalope 14y ago
  I'm not sure I agree with that comparison. Slackware-current will become the next stable release once all of the kinks have been worked out. Is RHEL ever really a snapshot of Fedora?
  - mhurron 14y ago
    > Is RHEL ever really a snapshot of Fedora? Basically yes, Fedora is Red Hat getting free testing of features and when it's time to create a new RHEL release, they grab a Fedora release, set it in stone and work from that. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux Red Hat Linux 6.2 → Red Hat Linux 6.2E Red Hat Linux 7.2 → Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 Red Hat Linux 10 beta 1 → Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Fedora Core 3 → Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Fedora Core 6 → Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Fedora 12, 13 → Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
    - jackalope 14y ago
      From the same article: RHEL trees are forked off the Fedora repository, and released after a substantial stabilization and quality assurance effort. Which adds a quote from the Fedora Project: Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a commercial enterprise operating system and has its own set of test phases including alpha and beta releases which are separate and distinct from Fedora development. And on that page[1] it states that RHEL6 is based on a "Mix of Fedora 12 Fedora 13 and several modifications". Sorry to be pedantic, but that's significantly different than the Slackware model. Maybe it's just PTSD; I fled from RH in the old days onto the path that led to Slackware, so any comparison makes me touchy. [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux?rd=RHEL#History https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux?rd=R...

by fuzzix 14y ago

mhurron 14y ago

Slackware-current is basically as stable as Fedora is at any given time so it's hard to really discourage its use. Honestly, Slackware is almost a RHEL/Fedora type ecosystem when just taking about official packages. Slackware-current gets new stuff, Slackware releases only get bug fixes, and not too many of them at that.

jackalope 14y ago
I'm not sure I agree with that comparison. Slackware-current will become the next stable release once all of the kinks have been worked out. Is RHEL ever really a snapshot of Fedora?
- mhurron 14y ago
  > Is RHEL ever really a snapshot of Fedora? Basically yes, Fedora is Red Hat getting free testing of features and when it's time to create a new RHEL release, they grab a Fedora release, set it in stone and work from that. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux Red Hat Linux 6.2 → Red Hat Linux 6.2E Red Hat Linux 7.2 → Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 Red Hat Linux 10 beta 1 → Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Fedora Core 3 → Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Fedora Core 6 → Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Fedora 12, 13 → Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  - jackalope 14y ago
    From the same article: RHEL trees are forked off the Fedora repository, and released after a substantial stabilization and quality assurance effort. Which adds a quote from the Fedora Project: Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a commercial enterprise operating system and has its own set of test phases including alpha and beta releases which are separate and distinct from Fedora development. And on that page[1] it states that RHEL6 is based on a "Mix of Fedora 12 Fedora 13 and several modifications". Sorry to be pedantic, but that's significantly different than the Slackware model. Maybe it's just PTSD; I fled from RH in the old days onto the path that led to Slackware, so any comparison makes me touchy. [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux?rd=RHEL#History https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux?rd=R...