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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: Does OSX need a Fedora-style testbed OS?
Date: 22 Jan 2015 18:07:56 GMT
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On 2015-01-22, 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?

Apple needs to ignore ignorant people and stay the course.

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