Am 19.10.2013 01:03, schrieb Roger:
On 10/19/2013 05:00 AM, Reindl Harald wrote:
>> I think you all missed their point about wanting an install that has a
>> >>>longer lifespan. They're jumping ship from Debian, and avoiding
Red Hat
>> >>>derived distros, because they all change versions too often, and
abandon
>> >>>prior releases too quickly for them. I understand how they feel.
> >>
> >>that must be why RHEL/CentOS has a lifespan of 10 years
Admittedly I am a novice in much of the reasoning about version changes but have long
wondered why they bother when
much of the new version could be just another update. Golly we update kernels and core
apps with regularity.
When it gets serious like moving from ext4 to btrfs or what ever it's called, now
that would require version change
but most version changes so far seem to be just updates.
I have no wish to create a flame war or cop derogatory comment, my few cents worth is
based on observation not
study of code.
and that is why different distributions exists
but also on Fedora no update will ever change for filesystem
* if you want no abusive changes but security updates and bugfixes use RHEL/CentOS
* if you want a recent system with all drawbacks use Fedora
and that is why i call the article idiocity: they mix Fedora and RHEL