Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!nntp.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: John Ames Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Linux Mint may make fewer releases a year Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2026 09:08:30 -0800 Organization: A place where nothing fits quite right Lines: 28 Message-ID: <20260212090830.00007b03@gmail.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2026 17:08:37 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="1744e2de401f335f6b812a64556c9d7f"; logging-data="1726924"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/FIkNwI5G34rRTtLf3FX5O7fEZ0+kfNOA=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:xmNObQFmPBCLAN4g/+umKycm1qo= X-Newsreader: Claws Mail 4.3.0 (GTK 3.24.42; x86_64-w64-mingw32) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:81986 On Thu, 12 Feb 2026 02:05:42 -0500 c186282 wrote: > To a degree, Linux has been taken in by the M$ "update fever" > bullshit. > > A push for too-frequent updates can mean that not enough time to > find/squash BUGS will be there. > > Take it a bit slower, get it RIGHT. "Release early, release often" is an ESR-ism, initially, and has deeper roots in the FOSS world than MS-land (Redmond only adopted it in the Win7 era) - but I agree, it's taken on the quality of a monomania in the last decade-plus. (This seems to be the way of things, with anything in the realm of soft- ware development methodology; first it's a truism, then it's received wisdom, then it's a religion, then it's an Industry, then something else comes along and supplants it. Just look at what "agile" mutated into, compared to the original manifesto.) Obviously, there's cases and reasons to hustle critical fixes out into the field as quick as you reasonably can - but the endless churn of new releases under the Cult of the Constant Update is deeply annoying. At least you can *generally* roll your eyes and disable notifications - unless you're stuck with the Filezilla fascists.