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Re:The Arch Linux team is now working directly with Valve by majewsky on Monday September 30, 2024 @06:52AM (#41695686)
You are working off an unusual definition of "rolling release". A rolling release just means that there are no major version bumps that require an active opt-in when upgrading.

And besides, the behavior of Fedora Rawhide can easily be achieved in Arch Linux by just adding the [testing] repo that's already prepared (but commented out) in your /etc/pacman.conf

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Re:The Arch Linux team is now working directly with Valve by Timber-6539 on Monday September 30, 2024 @08:11AM (#41696271)
> A rolling release just means that there are no major version bumps that require an active opt-in when upgrading.

Indeed. However IMO this definition is not complete without taking into account the matching status of upstream software versions available and package versions made available by the distro at any given point in time. This is the continuous delivery expected and what gives a distro rolling status among its peers.

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