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OpenSUSE Factory To Merge With Tumbleweed

Posted by samzenpus on from the two-in-one dept.

sfcrazy writes Factory and Tumbleweed will merge to become a single release. The release will follow the development cycle of Factory but take the more appealing name, Tumbleweed. Commenting on the new development Greg Kroah-Hartman said, “The changes to the Factory release model have changed it from being an unstable development codebase into the type of rolling release I set out to create when starting openSUSE Tumbleweed. I’m very happy to see these two rolling releases coming together under the name Tumbleweed, and am looking forward to watching how it develops in the future.” Factory won't disappear; It will become a "development project" for creating the "user-ready" Tumbleweed."

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  1. Re: Would it hurt the article author.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Tumbleweed was openSUSEs original rolling release, started by GregKH, which added rolling package updates to the regular openSUSE versions.

    Factory was originally openSUSEs unstable development branch (like Fedoras rawhide) but due to changes to our development process and heavy amounts of automated testing using openQA, Factory became a 'true' rolling release, with every package moving as fast as our contributors can move them, with QA preventing instability creeping in.

    This merger takes Factory's process & technology and gives its Tumbleweeds name, hopefully bringing both userbases onto a single rolling release of openSUSE

  2. Re:Tumblewhat? by Zontar+The+Mindless · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I've been using SuSE/openSUSE since 2005. It's always mostly worked quite well for me, and when I have had issues, in almost every case it was a problem that originated upstream (I'm looking at you, Nouveau).

    I know plenty of people who use it (including 3/4 of my team at work). Most of them are in the German-speaking countries, Benelux, or Scandinavia.

    I've not had much trouble with it lagging behind, although I have had the opposite problem on a couple of occasions, like when they've moved up to a newer version of gcc than our dev/QA people were testing against at the time. I've filed several bug reports against our products that were closed as !BUG and then re-opened after Fedora/RH/Debian/whatever caught up.

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    Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
  3. hmmm by Tumbleweed · · Score: 4, Funny

    I dunno about this. I think I'll move along to the next article now.