The biannual discussion of stable releases for Arch Linux has begun again.
Yup, every now and again, Arch users come together from all over the planet to have a little love-fest and decide whether everybody’s favorite speed-freak-centric rolling-release distro should have stable snapshots.
There’s a lot of foofoorah, a lot of chest-pounding, some people threaten to leave Arch, some people threaten to fork Arch, some people offer to help do it, and then a major holiday appears and the whole thing evaporates. At least, that’s what usually happens.
Oh wait, you mean that was a zombie thread? A necromancing poster? Argh! 😐
Oh well, at least the timing is right. Halloween is right around the corner.
… soon there will be a great exodus? 🙂
That does it. I’m leaving Arch…
…oh, wait!! That’s why I use Ubuntu.
Seriously, I agree with one of the Arch posters. If you want a 6 month stable release cycle, there are already other distros out there that do that.
My $0.02 YMMV,
John
I think I’d stick with arch either way. As long as it remains uber-customizable — use it to build a system as you see fit (not the one-size-fit-all model of Ubuntu) — I’m a happy camper.
Occasionally, I’ll install a new package only to find that stuff breaks and then having to upgrade the entire system — that’s the drawback of the rolling release system, I suppose.