On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 2:09 PM, Dennis Kioko <dmbuvi@gmail.com> wrote:

This I agree, but they do not do it in such a notorious manner as Linux which will do it every 6 months. At least other OS have a longer release cyclye and often provide backword compatibility for a number of new versions.

But why do you upgrade the OS every 6 months ? For e.g. if you use a distro like Ubuntu - they have releases with distinct cycles and goals -- the LTS release (currently 10.04 ) and the regular 6 month cycle release (which is like running debian-testing ....and is really a "beta" ) . If you use a LTS release you upgrade every 18 months - and dont break that easy in upgrades.