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The Rise of the Rolling Release

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Mar 4, 2013

Rolling releases are not new. Gentoo was one of the first, if not the actual, that was considered a rolling release. Later rPath, then PCLOS came along and Sabayon followed. Arch joined the fray and openSUSE began Tumbleweed. But more projects are kicking around the idea these days and some have even done it. Now then, what exactly is so great about a rolling release?

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