rhino-update VS rolling-rhino

If you're interested you may want to look at this: https://rollingrhinoremix.github.io/

The post I originally replied to here said that main difference between this "Rolling Rhino Remix" and Ubuntu's development branch were additional repositories. And https://rollingrhinoremix.github.io/ also says that.

There is a rolling release of Ubuntu called Rolling Rhino, which you can use if you like, but be aware that this is a newish and unofficial distribution.

> Unclear from the article is whether or not they will continue to support LTS versions

Why would this unofficial third-party system that takes a bunch of steps on top of the official Ubuntu release have any effect on Canonical support policies? Sure, the article is badly written and unclear, but that it isn't an official Ubuntu thing is pretty clear from the description of how it works:

“How is this achieved? According to the documentation, it’s mainly accomplished by tracking ‘devel’ repositories, which are repositories that have existed for every release but are not often used in production. You must start with a modified Ubuntu image which can be found here. Then, the distribution must be ‘initialized’ by follow steps in the documentation. Lastly, you need to use their custom tool called ‘rhino-update’ which extends the capabilities to apt that allow the distribution to update itself outside of the normal confines of a traditional Ubuntu release.”

It's even more clear if you go the linked page on Rolling Rhino Remix that it describes instead of the incompetently-written article:

https://rollingrhinoremix.github.io/

“Rolling Rhino Remix is an un-official Ubuntu flavour which converts the Ubuntu operating system into a rolling release Linux distriibution by tracking the devel series.”

Me and a few other contributors have spent almost two weeks working on this to get it to the point where we are ready for our first release and it's finally here! I'm pretty excited to get this released and work on the 2nd release. You can check out the website and download it here: https://rollingrhinoremix.github.io

I’m using Ubuntu. I left for fedora a while ago but came back ahead of the 22.04 release. I’m working on Rolling Rhino Remix, which is a rolling release Ubuntu, so when that releases I’ll probably go to that. One more day to wait!

Is your code available somewhere? The only piece of code I could find on your GitHub account is this script.

Well there is a community project called Rolling Rhino that converts Ubuntu to a rolling release by activating the devel repos and a bit shenanigans. Look here I haven't tested it but maybe this a nice alternative

Where you are right is that, its not an official ubuntu project as far as I know (I believe it was a side project by Ubuntu Desktop's lead developer), but it was a thing before these guys, installable in a simila way as Debian Unstable is (install the nightly image and manually edit the sources.list or use the 'rolling rhino' script).

But then, since before the 20.04 release, I just YOLO it and always update to the latest dev branch on my daily driver, a la Rolling Rhino.

Personally I think of Fedora & Ubuntu (non-LTS cycle) as pretty equal; though Fedora gives you maybe 6-13 months before you need to release-upgrade which is longer than the 6-9 months of Ubuntu (that's the benefit of Fedora to me; though I prefer Debian/Ubuntu still myself). No one distribution is always ahead of the others, but it's rarely Fedora in my view, though I'm not including Fedora rawhide though as my Fedora install is rarely on that; my OpenSuSE tumbleweed box is usually used if I need a system that is equal or further ahead of my Ubuntu/Debian system... I'm involved with a flavor so if I've found a bug, I use the other systems to confirm the bug before filing upstream.. Other systems I use are Fedora (version varies), OpenSuSE tumbleweed & Debian testing. Debian testing is actually behind my current Ubuntu flavor & has been awhile.. but that'll change as I watch new packages enter Sid... My Ubuntu system sits on the development cycle.. so if you want the most up-to-date Ubuntu system, don't forget you can use development (currently jammy), or use rolling rhino. Yes of course they're not stable so problems may occur (and I'd always ensure you have a replacement system ready to use... hey I've got my Debian testing, my opensuse, my fedora, etc ; and this system is dual boot anyway; my other install being a rarely used Ubuntu focal/20.04).

Ubuntu does have rolling rhino if sitting on the development cycle (currently jammy) isn't enough for you.

I was giving this some thought the other day. I think the LTS release cycle is perfect for the average user. I wonder if the development releases could be replaced with a rolling release? I don't use the development releases, but I'd imagine it's tedious to perform an upgrade every six months. I'd imagine it would be easier for those users if Canonical released a mature implementation of something like Rolling Rhino.

Martin Wimpress’ Rolling Rhino project has a bit more info.