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On Monday 06 June 2005 19:45, Collins Richey wrote: |
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> 2. Enterprise users (as a general rule) are not interested in the |
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> latest and greatest but rather in a stable, reasonably current system |
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> that can remain in place (with guaranteed security fixes, of course) |
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> with no "feature creep" for a few years. Even Gentoo stable is too |
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> much of a moving target for such users. The user base (engineers |
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> developing embedded Linux) I support is still well served by RH9 for |
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> the most part! |
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"Feature creep" is largely a problem upstream, not with package |
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maintainers. And no, we're not gonna backport anything. If people really |
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believe that backporting fixes = stable and/or secure, let them use RH. |
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It's a belief, nothing more. |
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Cheers, |
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Dylan Carlson [absinthe@g.o] |
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