Wednesday, March 28, 2018

Re: Why are so many people running and writing about current snapshots

Distros like RHEL have longer release cycles because the industry they service demands them. The fact that the kernel project maintains releases as far back as 2012 only re-enforces the business.

There's no need for 'puffangelism' on this subject as OBSD is by no means alone in six-month release cycles. Ubuntu is the obvious one.

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Patrick Harper
paianni@fastmail.com

On Tue, 27 Mar 2018, at 07:09, Consus wrote:
> On 14:46 Tue 27 Mar, Niels Kobschaetzki wrote:
> > CentOS 5 is EOL since March 31st 2017 ;)
> > CentOS 6 should be on extended support now which is going EOL in
> > November 2020.
>
> Yep. And Centos7 will be around until 2024. So 4/5 of Linux distros in
> production (e.g. Alpine is different in this regard) are affected by
> this awful megafreeze strategy when you're stuck with an old kernel and
> tools (not everything gets backported) for years.
>
> That's why I love OpenBSD's 6 month release cycles so much :3
>

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