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Shuttleworth Calls For Coordinated Release Cycles

Posted by timothy on from the that-time-of-year dept.

voodoosws points out on Mark Shuttleworth's blog Shuttleworth's call for synchronized publication of Linux distributions, excerpting: "There's one thing that could convince me to change the date of the next Ubuntu LTS: the opportunity to collaborate with the other, large distributions on a coordinated major / minor release cycle. If two out of three of Red Hat (RHEL), Novell (SLES) and Debian are willing to agree in advance on a date to the nearest month, and thereby on a combination of kernel, compiler toolchain, GNOME/KDE, X and OpenOffice versions, and agree to a six-month and 2-3 year long term cycle, then I would happily realign Ubuntu's short and long-term cycles around that. I think the benefits of this sort of alignment to users, upstreams and the distributions themselves would be enormous. I'll write more about this idea in due course, for now let's just call it my dream of true free software syncronicity."

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  1. err Gentoo? by xav_jones · · Score: 5, Funny

    I use Gentoo, you insensitive clod!

    1. Re:err Gentoo? by mweather · · Score: 5, Funny

      I'm sure if Shuttleworth knew YOU used it, he would have listed it as a large distro.

  2. Re:One reason why Synchronicity is bad by KokorHekkus · · Score: 4, Funny

    We learn something every day. I learned that Jung had a term called synchronicity.

    You get to learn that synchronicity also means "the quality or fact of being synchronous".
    Merriam-Webster: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Synchronicity
    Bartleby: http://www.bartleby.com/61/42/S0964250.html

  3. Re:One reason why Synchronicity is bad by Dystopian+Rebel · · Score: 2, Funny

    Merriam me no Websters and Bartleby me no Scriveners, Sir!

    http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/synchronicity?view=uk

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  4. Lets see by whitespiral · · Score: 1, Funny

    With most distributions having simultaneous releases, their users would suck the bandwidth out of ISPs dry, leaving the US, possibly the world, with modem-like connection speeds. MS would call for a ban on Linux distros as a matter of national security, slip a few congressmen a suitcase full of green bills, and suddenly, Linux is the newest technological outlaw. Lovely, Shuttleworth. Shuttle the fuck up.

  5. erm... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I thought GNU's not Unix. /ducks

  6. Re:Good idea... by Knuckles · · Score: 2, Funny

    That's because of your UID being over one million.

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  7. Re:Anhy reasons not to? by TeknoHog · · Score: 3, Funny

    Fortunately, a Debian maintainer will break the security in their release, even if all distros are released with the same upstream version.

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