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Re:Firefox moving to 4 week releases by nickm12 on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @08:47PM (#21001499)
Right. Desktop software is also much more difficult to QA than server software because of the lack of control over the environment and the difficulty of rollback.
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Re:Firefox moving to 4 week releases by nextos on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @09:00PM (#21001575)
Also, for desktop software, I have found that small releases are a lot less risky.

You experience small issues, one by one, instead of a massive amount of bugs coming all of a sudden.

For example, last time I updated a Linux distribution with 6-month releases this was the case. Whereas with a rolling release one, it's just much more pleasant.

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Re:Firefox moving to 4 week releases by deckarep on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @12:35PM (#21007078)
This is true of releasing code in general. Changes that accumulate over time actually increase risk whether it be desktop or server-side.
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