From: bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com   
      
   On 06/30/2016 01:06 AM, Ikke wrote:   
   > Doug Laidlaw_1 wrote:   
   >   
   >> Bobbie Sellers wrote:   
   >   
   > ....snip...   
   >   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>> Yes I notice the late night effect myself all too often,   
   >>> But Open Mandriva will have to bring out a release candidate   
   >>> before I will bother to download it,  The earlier version would   
   >>> not boot on my computer(s).  I would rather be concerned with   
   >>> the PCLinuxOS rolling release and the Mageia 6 which might be   
   >>> coming out by fall.   
   >>>   
   >>> bliss   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> I would be interested in hearing how you find a rolling release.  One   
   >> comparison said that the major distros avoid them because it is too big a   
   >> task for the developers.  OpenSuSE is offering one, in the alternative.   
   >>   
   > ....snip....   
   >   
   > Just my 2c on the PCLinuxOS rolling release:   
   > I have weened some friends off Win to Mageia since a number of years. Last   
   > year I have been running PCLinux OS on my laptop to find out how the rolling   
   > release worked. The concept was appealing to me, as it would avoid me to run   
   > around every 18 months-2 years to install the next supported release when   
   > theirs is not supported anymore.   
   > I for myself had no problems in running PCLinux OS. But some of my friends   
   > are very bad at using computers and learning new tricks is a problem. So I   
   > came to the conclusion that the way getting updates from the repos is far   
   > too complex for those people (it involves some 6 steps to get the process   
   > running). I gave finally up on it.   
   >   
   > Herman Viaene   
   >   
   >   
   Well with a single page of printed out instructions I managed to get   
   one other naive user to keep PCLOS running.  I also gave him a couple   
   of hours of practical instruction on the use of the update facility   
   using the file manager and what various tools did.   I remind the   
   user to do updates whenever I am sure they are functional but since   
   he is elderly (not as elderly as myself) I will come by and help   
   him out if an update goes badly.  He was used to using MacOS and   
   Windows.   
      
   	The possibility of a bad update coming through seems less now   
   than when I was using PC-LOS on Compaq notebook a couple of years back.   
   But I am thinking about creating a backup to the most important   
   partitions on my setup so that I would only have to switch to that   
   backup after a bad update.   
      
   	Now I am going to review the instructions I originally   
   gave him and see if they need replacement with more general or   
   precise terms.  Anyone interested in seeing the result?   
      
   	bliss   
   	   
      
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