Ubuntu moving to rolling release?

I love when new updates are available, it makes me feel productive!<p>But really, rolling release in production use is a little scary. It greatly increases the odds of something potentially going wrong in a routine update. I wouldn't mind more frequent releases, such as quarterly maybe; but this worries me a bit. I have a lot of trust in the Ubuntu team to be thorough in their testing, but we are all fallible and this is going to cost me some peace of mind.

For those that don't know (some on this page don't, it seems), Arch, Gentoo, FreeBSD(-STABLE and -CURRENT), and others already do this.

There is already "archlinux" which is a rolling release distro.<p>But this would be a killer feature if Ubuntu can pull it off. I think there needs to be a fundamental difference in packaging philosophy to achieve this - for example the "-dev" being packaged separately will now need to go IMHO, etc.

I don't know how I would feel about this, but I guess I would be okay if they had both a LTS and a rolling release distro.<p>As someone else commented ISOs need to be updated more often, at the very least weekly. (It really sucks after downloading an ISO on a shoddy connection only to find out you have to download another 300mb in order to replace the software you just downloaded)

I like new releases. It's like a brand new ubuntu with better feature and everything. A release is an event.

So basically, Debian testing.

Good luck with this one

hopefully this will mean that they'll have updated ISOs on their website more often.<p>It's ridiculous that many people that get an ISO end up having issues with things like missing WiFi drivers fpr laptops and they're not able to download the updates to fix the problem unless they can get a hold of an ethernet connection to the internet.

Ubuntu: the only distro where only ppl who know some secret hand shake can file bugs.<p>10.10 is the end for me. Good riddance. Im back to debian