Rolling release
Rolling Release ( English , made to roll to roll 'and release , publication'; mutatis mutandis "continuous update") is a term used in the software art in the field of Operating Systems means and that continuous development software is present. In the case of an operating system that uses the rolling release principle, there are no operating system versions in which a large amount of software is updated at once during a version upgrade . Instead, the individual software packages are constantly being updated . This does not exclude so-called releases , that is, releases of the operating system; In contrast to an operating system without rolling releases, the publications are not versions, but so-called snapshots , i.e. a copy of all software versions currently in the repository . These snapshots mostly serve as installation - media .
use
The term rolling release is often used in the GNU / Linux area . For example, the GNU / Linux distributions Arch , Manjaro , Void Linux , Gentoo , Paldo , PCLinuxOS , Sabayon , Ubuntu Touch, the “Tumbleweed” branch of openSUSE , siduction and Aptosid (formerly Sidux) use the rolling release technology.
The development branches of the GNU / Linux distributions Debian (called unstable or sid and testing ), Fedora (called Rawhide ), Mandriva (called Cooker ) and Slackware (called current ) also use a rolling release principle, the but differs from the above distributions easy: during the development of the operating system is the development branch "frozen" (so-called Freeze - stage ). After that, software packages are usually no longer updated, but errors are only removed. As soon as the developer branch no longer contains any errors that would prevent the operating system from being released (so-called release critical bugs ), the developer branch is published as a stable version. The development branch loses the freeze stage and the individual software packages are continuously updated again as before.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Alexandra Kleijn: Arch Linux 2009.02. In: Heise Zeitschriften Verlag. Heise open, February 17, 2009, accessed on March 17, 2009 .
- ↑ Handbook Release Guide. Gentoo Foundation, Inc., accessed March 17, 2009 .
- ^ The Absent PCLinuxOS Release Cycle. October 23, 2007, accessed June 3, 2009 .
- ↑ Sabayon Wiki - How does Sabayon Linux differ from other distributions. Sabayon Team, April 2, 2013, accessed October 8, 2013 .
- ↑ siduction manual. (No longer available online.) Siduction Team, January 17, 2012, archived from the original on November 4, 2013 ; Retrieved October 8, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ sidux - an operating system based on Debian unstable. Chemnitzer-Linux-Tage-Team, February 20, 2008, accessed on March 17, 2009 .
