CLARITY re: challenge: end of life for 6.2 is premature with buggy 6.3

[Paul Schmehl]

--On June 8, 2008 5:49:20 PM +0200 Michel Talon <talon at lpthe.jussieu.fr> 
wrote:
>
> I think it is very unreasonable for end users to ask maintaining, e.g.
> 6.2 ad vitam eternam. The real stable branch is now 7.* and diverting
> effort to polish the 6.* is a waste of time. People wanting a very
> stable system should simply use something else, like Debian stable,
> official RedHat, etc. whose aim is precisely to offer the maximum
> stability, with only security and bug fixes, and for extended periods of
> time. The price you pay is obsoleted and "unsexy" systems, which is
> probably OK for the intended use. On the other hand i have no business
> running such a system.

Please do understand that for some of us, these are not choices.  I wiped 
a FreeBSD machine and bought and installed RedHat because a vendor's 
software would only run on RedHat.  The experience was a painful one. 
RedHat's updates are a pure PITA.  The box now runs FreeBSD again, and I 
doubt I will ever experiment with something else again.

If I can't have FreeBSD, I won't run a server.  I don't think I'm alone.

Paul Schmehl
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