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Re: Does OSX need a Fedora-style testbed OS?

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In article <m9rdnd$r8c$1@dont-email.me>, sctvguy1
<sctvguy1@invalid.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Jan 2015 17:35:02 +0000, Jolly Roger wrote:
> > On 2015-01-22, sctvguy1 <sctvguy1@invalid.net> wrote:
> >>
> >> Reading all the controversy over Apple's release of OSX yearly, and the
> >> complaints over constant new features making it into the GA, what if
> >> Apple had its own Fedora-style testbed OS, where new features, kernels,
> >> apps, could be put out for people who want to test the OS and want to
> >> be on the bleeding edge.
> >> Would doing something like this lead to a more stable final release of
> >> OSX?  Stuff could be tried out, tested and if passed the QA tests, roll
> >> out in the next final release.
> > 
> > Despite all the hemming and hawing, there hasn't been any actual
> > evidence showing that releases are any less stable than the many
> > releases that came before them. On the contrary, release bugs have
> > existed throughout Apple's history. Apple's course of action should be
> > to first identify that there is a problem, and only then fix it. If
> > there is no problem, nothing needs to change.
> 
> I have OSX 10.4.11, which has been said to be a great release, and have 
> read that a lot of people think that 10.6 SL was a high point.  10.7
> (Lion) seems to engender bad comments, I have no idea why.
> I was just thinking about having a "test bed" version of the OS to 
> introduce a lot of new stuff, and to find bugs before they can make it 
> into the final release.
> Maybe Apple needs an LTS version of OSX?

There's absolutely no need. As has already been said, Apple does
release new versions and updaters for OS X to its Developer Community
for beta testing (and no doubt some of the big names get it before that
for testing). They have in the past also sometimes released a new
version of OS X for public Beta testing - they did with the current OS
X Yosemite.

Besides, anyone with more than half a brain also waits for the "0.1"
release of OS X (or any other new software for that matter) before
installing it on important computers, or at least retains the ability
to boot / use their computer with the previous version.

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Does OSX need a Fedora-style testbed OS? sctvguy1 <sctvguy1@invalid.net> - 2015-01-22 17:24 +0000
  Re: Does OSX need a Fedora-style testbed OS? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-01-22 17:35 +0000
    Re: Does OSX need a Fedora-style testbed OS? sctvguy1 <sctvguy1@invalid.net> - 2015-01-22 17:58 +0000
      Re: Does OSX need a Fedora-style testbed OS? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-01-22 18:07 +0000
      Re: Does OSX need a Fedora-style testbed OS? Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2015-01-23 08:45 +1300
        Re: Does OSX need a Fedora-style testbed OS? "John Varela" <newlamps@verizon.net> - 2015-01-23 00:27 +0000
          Re: Does OSX need a Fedora-style testbed OS? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-01-23 03:01 +0000
            Re: Does OSX need a Fedora-style testbed OS? "John Varela" <newlamps@verizon.net> - 2015-01-24 03:42 +0000
              Re: Does OSX need a Fedora-style testbed OS? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-01-24 13:47 +0000
                Re: Does OSX need a Fedora-style testbed OS? "John Varela" <newlamps@verizon.net> - 2015-01-25 00:33 +0000
                Re: Does OSX need a Fedora-style testbed OS? Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2015-01-25 13:42 +1300
        Re: Does OSX need a Fedora-style testbed OS? Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2015-01-22 18:57 -0700
      Re: Does OSX need a Fedora-style testbed OS? me@home.spamsucks.ca (Király) - 2015-01-23 16:20 +0000
        Re: Does OSX need a Fedora-style testbed OS? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-01-23 16:22 +0000
          Re: Does OSX need a Fedora-style testbed OS? me@home.spamsucks.ca (Király) - 2015-01-24 21:16 +0000
            Re: Does OSX need a Fedora-style testbed OS? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-01-24 21:28 +0000
              Re: Does OSX need a Fedora-style testbed OS? me@home.spamsucks.ca (Király) - 2015-01-25 17:00 +0000
                Re: Does OSX need a Fedora-style testbed OS? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-01-25 17:04 +0000
              Re: Does OSX need a Fedora-style testbed OS? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-01-26 01:26 +0000
                Re: Does OSX need a Fedora-style testbed OS? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-01-26 01:53 +0000
                Re: Does OSX need a Fedora-style testbed OS? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-01-26 11:13 +0000
        Re: Does OSX need a Fedora-style testbed OS? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-01-26 01:24 +0000
  Re: Does OSX need a Fedora-style testbed OS? Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2015-01-22 12:55 -0500
    Re: Does OSX need a Fedora-style testbed OS? Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2015-01-22 12:22 -0700
      Re: Does OSX need a Fedora-style testbed OS? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-01-23 01:06 +0000

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