Renowned for its slow and steady approach, Mint’s pace of change may become even slower and steadier.
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In its latest monthly update, the Linux Mint blog looks back at development over the prior decade. One of the distro’s strengths, according to the author(s), is that the Mint team does things incrementally, making changes slowly. The big news is that this blog post provides a pretty strong signal that the developers want to break from the rigid six-monthly update cycle they have self-imposed. It looks like things are going to get even more incremental and slow. Is this playing to the distro’s strengths, as the blog indicates? Conversely, the blog also suggests that more time between releases will let the Linux Mint team be more ambitious.
Schedules can easily become a burden. The good news is, if time tables are self-imposed, it isn’t that difficult to change them. However, Linux Mint has grown quite a following, so the developers probably hope this blog post will ease user fears and reduce push-back over their planned timing changes.
The Linux Mint developers argue that “With a release every six months plus LMDE, we spend more time testing, fixing, and releasing than developing.” Rationally, it is difficult to argue against this assertion. Moreover, the devs say that there are great upsides to departing from a strict timing regimen. Most notably, the admin load of the six-monthly release schedule “caps our ambition when it comes to development.” The extra time could be used for more ambitious developments between updates.
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Reference reading
- https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/SPONSORED_LINK_URL
- https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/linux-mint-team-considers-longer-gaps-between-releases-in-attempt-to-accelerate-development-efforts-current-six-month-cycle-means-we-spend-more-time-testing-fixing-and-releasing-than-developing#main
- https://www.tomshardware.com
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