Slowroll: openSUSE's New Take on the Rolling Release Model - FOSS Force
Slowroll: openSUSE's New Take on the Rolling Release Model - FOSS Force
Seems like a good idea, though I've been impressed with how stable Tumbleweed somehow manages to be. I have been running it for months now without a single problem, even though it receives updates several times a week.
Apparently they get their software tested via OpenQA which manages to remove most issues bsfore they hit users.
Yeah, it's a good idea but I don't think I'll be moving from Tumbleweed.
Actually this might be the release model that suits me the most. I want relatively uptodate releases but not new updates 2-3 times a week.
I wonder if there could be a system in place that is just Tumbleweed but with an user facing option from when to update. Like, on my machine I could use an update per week, but on someone's machine they might just need it once per month. With bug fixes and major DE versions ignoring this limit, or something similar.
You can update Tumbleweed once a week, or even once a month without problem. I think the added value of Slowroll is rather slower, hopefully even more consolidated QA no?
Sounds cool. I have my dad on Tumbleweed, because I wanted to avoid big upgrades, but needing to download hundreds of packages every week is quite pointless for him...
I like the linked Jonathan Corbet LWN article.
The results are somewhat ambiguous. On the one hand, there seems to be a significant portion of the community that would prefer to keep Leap going in something close to its current form. On the other, though, there is also a lot of interest in rolling distributions, which are almost the opposite of how the core of Leap is managed. [...]
After looking at the survey responses, Brown came to a few conclusions regarding where, in his opinion, the openSUSE community should focus its efforts. By his reading, the respondents "overwhelmingly" support rolling releases; as a result, he said, any Leap replacement should look like Slowroll rather than Linarite. "It is the most popular with our users, and the option more closely aligned to what our contributors use themselves." (emphasis mine)
Hahaha. Good old Richard!
(I personally like the idea of Slowroll though. I hated when openSUSE stopped providing the GNOME:Next repos for Leap. Otoh, I am no longer using openSUSE anyway.)
Is there a way to migrate from Tumbleweed to this new "Slowroll" thing without reinstalling? Like could I just update my zypper repos or something?
I like the concept. I've been rolling tumbleweed for a while with no issues except for Nvidia drivers, but combining the stability of a point release with the "install once" feature of a rolling release is nice.
OS Leap and Debian do a solid job with release upgrades, but applications can get out of date when you're getting close to the next release.
Same here. Nvidia troubles were one the main reasons I jumped ship from Tumbleweed.
I'm a little surprised at the focus on "install once", because I kind of thought my negative distupgrade experiences were a "me" problem. Honestly, I can't remember the last time I had a successful major upgrade on Linux. Totally nuked an Ubuntu install trying to upgrade from 20.04. Now I take major upgrades as an opportunity to hop distros again.