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Ubuntu May Move To Rolling Releases
formfeed writes "The register claims that 'Ubuntu is moving away from its established six-month-cycle and potentially to a future where software updates land on a daily basis.'
While this sounds like a sudden change, it is apparently more of a long-term thought. The Register quotes Shuttleworth:
'"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. That's an area we will put a lot of work into in the next five years. The small steps we are putting in to the Software Center today, they will go further and faster than people might have envisioned in the past."' But given that many of Shuttleworth's thoughts became decisions later on, it might be interesting to see, where this one leads. Interestingly enough, five years is about the time when Ubuntu will run out of letters."
That happened to me.
ON DEBIAN STABLE
Seriously, running Debian Stable happily for months. They release a break for my Firewire, obviously a security update because it's STABLE, then they release a break for my sound, I didn't feel like futzing with drivers and stuff, that's why I stayed on stable. I went to Kubuntu. 8 months later I figured I would try Debian again. Still broke. I don't know what they were thinking, but stable isn't.
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Debian CUT == Constantly Usable Testing.
A recently started project in Debian with a similar goal of a rolling release (along with an idea of installable snapshots).
http://cut.debian.net/
http://lwn.net/Articles/406301/
"It is better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees." - Albert Camus
Did you happen to post a bug, or just assume they knew that their stable security update had actually broken something?
If there was a bug, it would have been fixed.