Clarifying Misunderstandings of Slowroll (openSUSE News)

[Posted January 19, 2024 by corbet]

The openSUSE News site has put up a brief article on how Slowroll fits into the spectrum of openSUSE distributions.

The idea behind Slowroll is to offer a distribution that improves stability without losing access to new features in the base packages such as the kernel, desktop environments and packaging. These slower update cycles allow for more extensive testing and validation of packages before their inclusion. Think of Slowroll as more of a skip than a Leap.

Clarifying Misunderstandings of Slowroll (openSUSE News)

Posted Jan 20, 2024 5:39 UTC (Sat) by jefeman (guest, #152958) [Link]

I am a longtime openSUSE Leap user and will likely try migrating to Slowroll once it's released, for newer packages with at least _potential_ stability. Unfortunately there's no current migration path from Tumbleweed to Leap (that I'm aware of, I would love to be wrong here) so I can't try Tumbleweed and judge its stability for myself without risking my primary workstation. And of course there'll probably be even more divergence between Slowroll and ALP-based Leap. All of this together will inspire a distribution and stability guessing game with lots of re-installs for Leap users in the near term. And it's pretty much guaranteed I'll guess wrong...

But all the above notwithstanding, I am (finally) feeling cautiously optimistic after this week's two announcements. It seems users like me might actually get a semi-painless upgrade path after all!