Major concern about rolling upgrades is that you never really know the side 
effects.
We have been on SL 5.6 for a long time and everything works that we use.
If SL 6.X is going to be supported for the foreseeable future then we will 
make the upgrade to all of our systems.
We use SL 5.6 to run our business, & factory.   For what we do it works and 
its stable.  Runs on relatively old hardware - a little slower but 
functional.

We use VM-Ware to run Windows & the applications we need.
Don't want to spend the effort every 6 mo. and have to service the parts that 
now do not work.

One of our real concerns is What was StarOffice.   We started using StarOffice 
3 under OS/2 and are now using OOffice 3.14. with the old StarOffice 5 file 
formats.   The ability to convert to MS formats and to .pdf work well.   
Since it has been donated to Appache - is there an active group that is going 
to support and expand it.   
The real down side of OOffice 3.14 is the graphics / plots it used to work 
well but has been mangled.   It may be fine for some business plots but as an 
engineering tool it has lost it effectiveness - Difficult if not impossible 
to set up to plot data.
A lot of the developers have jumped ship and started a new offshoot.
Any Thoughts.

Regards
Larry Linder

On Thursday 29 September 2011 7:44 am, Vladimir Mosgalin wrote:
> Hi lancebaynes87!
>
>  On 2011.09.29 at 04:28:18 -0700, lancebaynes87 wrote next:
> > SOLUTION #2
> > if we install the:
> >
> > http://www.osst.co.uk/Download/scientific/6rolling/x86_64/iso/SL-61-x86_6
> >4-2011-07-27-Install-DVD.iso.torrent
> >
> > that's a "rolling release". Now I haven't used any "rolling release"
> > based Linux distros so I don't know what that exactly means. Q: does it
> > mean that if I install it once, then I never have to re-install it again
> > because of a version upgrade, ex.: Scientific-Linux 7 comes out, and
> > neither do I need to "dist-upgrade"? - Because rolling release means that
> > there is no more version numbers?
>
> Well I'd say that rolling release concept isn't strictly related to your
> need, so you can ignore the fact it's "rolling" for now. It has more to
> do with the way versions are set and flows of package updates.
>
> There is no automatic migration to SL7 once it's out (well, most
> likely), and manual upgrade isn't recommended, there is no dist-upgrade
> equivalent. You will most likely have to reinstall. However, this 6 year
> long support is for SL6 alone, it means that for 6 years you can stay on
> SL6 (6.1, 6.2, etc - updating between these is very painless, also kind
> of optional if there is no need), without reinstalling anything.
>
>
> The other question is that lot of desktop needs require fresher distro,
> not 6 year old, so using SL6 in 2017 on desktop might be a bit annoying,
> so to say; therefore, if it's about desktop, you might want to reinstall
> to SL7 soon after it's out, maybe in 2 or 3 years or something. However,
> this depends on usage patterns of your systems and you can ignore this
> for now, too.
>
> SL6 seems to be great for your needs, so just install 6.1 and start
> using it, you can understand all these rolling release concepts and
> others later, as they won't affect you for now.