Can't PureOS upgrade options be pushed by e-mails?

[jasonolshefsky]

@FranklyFlawless

Blog posts and respective forum threads in the Announcements category. You can use this RSS feed to stay updated with the former:
https://puri.sm/feed/

I must be dumb; I only see Firmware, General, Hardware, Software, and Services under “All Categories>”. Oh, wait, if I search, I can get “Announcements.” … and that’s just a bloated rehash of all the blog posts (same as the RSS feed) which is 99% marketing.

Any other major system has a website that summarizes releases. I.e. Thunderbird release notes, Firefox release notes… But not PureOS. And I’m on Caliga’s side with:

@Caliga

But to re-iterate: I would not consider a dump of all upstream changes helpful. I would consider it helpful if the release notes would focus on notable changes, e.g. security, changes Purism was working on, or important packages.

I didn’t intend to sign up as a full-time unpaid system administrator…

@FranklyFlawless

Is Crimson stable and official? No and yes. See also:

@jasonolshefsky

Is Crimson stable and official?

No and yes. See also:

@FranklyFlawless

Then, bringing it up to the present, we have this scenario: Byzantium, which is stable Crimson, which is rolling The key terminology here is “hybrid point release and rolling release model”, not “hybrid stable and unstable”. By the way, here is Crimson: https://downloads.pureos.net/crimson/

So rolling releases are inherently unstable, making every user—in the parlance of the 1990s—an alpha tester? Not what I was interested in at all. I assumed that Purism was acting as a kind of vetting service for Linux releases so I wouldn’t have to worry so much that doing an OS update would result in a lost day debugging a bricked computer. Alas, per the “assume” aphorism, I’m the ass…