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2017-07-26 , 22:29
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#870
Originally Posted by nthn View Post
Come on openSUSE, really? {...} That's 1,5 years of new (and very useful) features and bugfixes missing, and it's only the first day of its 9 month lifespan! U
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last time I tried, which was back in September, but Leap is now majorly out of date
openSUSE Leap is the equivalent of Debian Stable.
(and the non-enterprise/non-comercial equivalent of SLES)

It has a slow turn-over of package, but they are still maintained (security and some bugfixes get back-ported).

(Though unlike Debian Stable they aren't that much behind. Compared to the base SLES, Leap does import quite a few more recent packages)

If you do want up-to-date packages, and latest bells and whistles, openSUSE Tumbleweed is what you want.

And in my personal experience, it's one of the best and most stable rolling release distro.

and Tumbleweed, being rolling, has far too many package updates to keep up.
That's why you settle for a schedule that works best for you.

Usually I only update :
- in case of critical security bugs. You know, those who usually get a nice nickname and lots of press coverage (or other update of cirical packages like kernel / libc / ssh /etc,)
- I want a recent bell and whistle that just got recently out (eg.: I want newer libdrm / Mesa )
- otherwise only every few weeks
 

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