Ubuntu Rolling Release.

[DMGrier]

So I have been keeping up with the new Proposal for Ubuntu potentially going rolling release and honestly was okay with this until I was watching the Q&A on Ubuntu OnAir and seemed like this is a really bad deal, what do you guys think?

Plus do you think all the distro's based on Ubuntu will go rolling release, good example being Linux Mint?

 

[NyxCharon]

Rolling release isn't really that big of an issue, distros have been doing it for ages. Mir on the otherhand, could possibly be a very severe problem, especially for anything ubuntu based.

 

[DMGrier]

Rolling release isn't really that big of an issue, distros have been doing it for ages. Mir on the otherhand, could possibly be a very severe problem, especially for anything ubuntu based.

I know the rolling release has been around a while but a lot of users seem to be worried about the stability and there was a few things I was reading about how some businesses that are currently running the six month releases will be stopping to use Ubuntu which sucks for Canonical. Now my question to you is if you where still supporting Adonis Aurora and doing six month releases with it being based on the latest Ubuntu release how much work would be involved going to a rolling release cycle instead of six month.

Mir I think could ruin Ubuntu but if they pull it off then no one can say that Canonical does't contribute to the open source community. I guess we will have to see, I have heard that Canonical has about 10-15 people working on it though. Hope for the best I guess, if not we got X and if it moves along in development we got Wayland.

 

[NyxCharon]

I know the rolling release has been around a while but a lot of users seem to be worried about the stability and there was a few things I was reading about how some businesses that are currently running the six month releases will be stopping to use Ubuntu which sucks for Canonical. Now my question to you is if you where still supporting Adonis Aurora and doing six month releases with it being based on the latest Ubuntu release how much work would be involved going to a rolling release cycle instead of six month.

Mir I think could ruin Ubuntu but if they pull it off then no one can say that Canonical does't contribute to the open source community. I guess we will have to see, I have heard that Canonical has about 10-15 people working on it though. Hope for the best I guess, if not we got X and if it moves along in development we got Wayland.

I'm no longer working on Aurora, I dropped that a while ago. I am straight up Debian now for all editions. However, I am using a rolling release and (officially) have been for since Adonis 1.1 (Jan 1st), though it's been a work in progress for much longer. It's really not that much work in terms of prep, there is a lot more work in terms of pushing packages and making sure they don't break anything.

Mir is going to destroy Ubuntu's linux community. Even if they do pull it off, it does nothing to contribute to the open source community ( at least not easily) . They are writing it for Ubuntu, and Ubuntu only, unlike xorg and wayland. So once mir is in place, every distribution using it (like all the derivatives) will have to port it to there distributions, just making more work for everyone. It took a lot of work from a lot of communities to port stuff Ubuntu has done in the past (See Unity on arch for instance). I can't really see how mir would improve the linux community at all.