On Fri, 16 Nov 2018 17:58:36 +0100, you wrote:
Gerald Henriksen wrote:
> I think the problem is that for a consumer / desktop oriented product
> - which we seem to be talking about given that this appears to be
> driven in part by the desire of hardware vendors - the RHEL/CentOS
> release cycle leads to problems for several years worth of hardware
> releases.
>
> If you are a hardware vendor would you want to be releasing a laptop
> running CentOS 7.x today, with its outdated versions of much of the
> software (that is a value to the enterprise server market, but less so
> consumer)?
But the same goes for ANY LTS distribution!
No distro is going to do LTS releases with 37 month support every 6 months.
It would mean supporting 7 releases at once!
Of course not, which is one of the reasons why moving to a 12 month
release cycle may be a better idea, with a sort of LTS release maybe
every 2 years.