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I don't see the problem of being running 5.8..
I am running 5.8 since its release, last sunday, and its rocking in my OrangePi One Plus..
full throttle!
It looks like it. When Arch gets the next <software here>, they don't care. However, when openSUSE gets it, they make an article about it.
I thought it was odd that we got an article about "Rolling Release Distribution Now Shipping Linux Stable". Kind of a "No shit, Sherlock" situation.
But I think Michael omits Arch from the news and benchmarks because it's more of a meta distribution whereas Tumbleweed isn't. The second we start tweaking various /etc/something.conf to install Arch and make it into what we want it to be it starts to lose the the reproducibility factor that an install like Tumbleweed or Ubuntu provides.
You will have to give us a bit more info. Which technology are you using for your VMs ? QEMU/kvm, xen, virtualbox, vmware etc
I have been using LXD containers and everything is still working for me, but ofc it is not VMs.
Also VMWare (workstation/Player) break hard on 5.8, for the same reasons of Virtualbox I guess.
And yes, LXD isn't a VM so you are fine.
I'm a bit annoyed because I'll have to lock the kernel to 5.7.something and not upgrade anymore until VMWare updates their own application, as I need that to run VMs for work.
Also VMWare (workstation/Player) break hard on 5.8, for the same reasons of Virtualbox I guess.
And yes, LXD isn't a VM so you are fine.
I'm a bit annoyed because I'll have to lock the kernel to 5.7.something and not upgrade anymore until VMWare updates their own application, as I need that to run VMs for work.
Maybe because being the first is newsworthy, being second is not? If Arch had been the first, I bet it had been covered instead of openSUSE. But only one can be first... ;-)
And as 5.8 was a bit of a big deal, I can imagine Michael decided to notify everyone when the first distro shipped it in their stable branch. And there, obviously, the rolling distro's have an advantage so it was between Arch or openSUSE.
Yeah, openSUSE does have a speed advantage with their automated testing, of course. Well, openQA is open source, Arch could just take it... if they were smart ;-)
Yeah, openSUSE does have a speed advantage with their automated testing, of course. Well, openQA is open source, Arch could just take it... if they were smart ;-)
Like all automated testing, it still needs some manpower to understand and set up and maintain.
It's FAR LESS manpower than testing the whole distro each time something changes manually, but a dude or two need to work on it and then keep an eye on it.
Arch is a high-speed low-drag operation, they don't have the manpower to do that. The community is the QA, with the testing branches.
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