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Future Ubuntu bumps could be a daily occurrence
Canonical is looking to change that, and frontman Mark Shuttleworth thinks that you may see Ubuntu pushing things in a similar direction. "Today we have a six-month release cycle," Shuttleworth said. "In an internet-oriented world, we need to be able to release something every day," he told The Register. This would go beyond the package updates Ubuntu users -- and Linux users in general -- are used to receiving via their package manager. Major new features, subtle UI changes, or new core applications like the recently-added Shotwell photo manager could be delivered piping hot, fresh from the development teams working on a particular aspect of Ubuntu.
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Subscribe to commentsSilverWaveNov 23rd 2010 7:34PM
TBH that sounds odd coming from Mark.
His whole thrust for years has been cadence and the 6 month release...
I wonder what the idea is here or if he has been quoted OOC.
JoePalmaNov 23rd 2010 8:30PM
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well if he just means keeping more packages up to date it makes sense and is a great move. I don't think this means they're going to a rolling release model.
Although monthly snapshots would be awesome for those of us who reinstall/distrohop frequently.
SilverWaveNov 25th 2010 4:27AM
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Ubuntu is not changing to a rolling release. We are confident that our customers, partners, and the FLOSS ecosystem are well served by our current release cadence. What the article was probably referring to was the possibility of making it easier for developers to use cutting edge versions of certain software packages on Ubuntu. This is a wide-ranging project that we will continue to pursue through our normal planning processes.
SilverWaveNov 25th 2010 4:31AM
Quote:
Ubuntu is not changing to a rolling release. We are confident that our customers, partners, and the FLOSS ecosystem are well served by our current release cadence. What the article was probably referring to was the possibility of making it easier for developers to use cutting edge versions of certain software packages on Ubuntu. This is a wide-ranging project that we will continue to pursue through our normal planning processes.
RyzvonusefNov 24th 2010 2:11AM
Um, doesn't that already happen? Every day I run
sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude upgrade
and it brings up any updates there were, like yesterday I got a update for the linux kernel, day before it was the opera browser...
lassiNov 24th 2010 2:55AM
@Ryzvonusef
but he's talking about changing something you'd see every day, about getting _attention_ to ubuntu every day. empty pr stuff you know
SilverWaveNov 25th 2010 4:35AM
comments are taking 5min to post :-(