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Anzhr

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Xfce on Debian Testing and Mint Xfce review

http://xubuntufun.tumblr.com/post/44665 … an-testing

twl

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Re: Xfce on Debian Testing and Mint Xfce review

Hmm.. Is he saying debian testing is a rolling release branch? I thought it wasn't because they freeze it for like 6 months before a new stable version is released

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Anzhr

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Re: Xfce on Debian Testing and Mint Xfce review

Yes, it's not a true rolling release.

There's a movement under way to create one known as Constantly Usable Testing.

dyfet

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Re: Xfce on Debian Testing and Mint Xfce review

There seems to be several efforts underway to make testing more usable as a rolling release.  Mint is experimenting with a "synced" update policy and process, where they hold testing updates for a month, do some testing of their own, and then let them all go at once as a "upgrade pack".  I actually think that model could be better than a true continual rolling release with daily/constant updates once things like btrfs snapshoting become usable as part of the upgrade process, grub, etc, so one could could then have a bootable snapshot of the current instance, run a upgrade pack, and if it somehow is a disaster, easily boot into the old instance and remove the new one.  Doing snapshots on a daily basis is certainly too frequent, and testing does have occassional breakage, though in theory a constantly usable testing would work harder to avoid that.  Still, doing such upgrades on an occasional basis when choosing an upgrade pack, to get all the changes over a period of time cleanly at once (and with said snapshotting) seems better to me.

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Anzhr

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Re: Xfce on Debian Testing and Mint Xfce review

Yes, I think the update packs will be a good thing for many people. Nvidia is currently badly broken in Testing. It can be fixed using the Unstable repos but added and deleting sources is too funky for most people.

the98

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Re: Xfce on Debian Testing and Mint Xfce review

I think you can consider Debian Sid as a Rolling release. Even though it's called unstable, it actually isn't. You might encounter some bugs along the way, but that also happens with distros that are a rolling release, like Arch Linux.

Anzhr

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Re: Xfce on Debian Testing and Mint Xfce review

And fixes come into Sid sooner than into Testing.

ComputerBob

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Re: Xfce on Debian Testing and Mint Xfce review

Clicking on the link to the review in the first message of this thread, results in "File Not Found" and an automatic redirect to a page at mylinuxrig.com

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chipong

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Re: Xfce on Debian Testing and Mint Xfce review

Rolling release?
So many people are meaning to destroying the most important part of debian-Quanlity assurance and test circle.

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