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Long-term support and backport risk

Posted Jun 20, 2007 17:56 UTC (Wed) by oak (subscriber, #2786)
Parent article: Long-term support and backport risk

Why not have very stable server releases which don't offer (any?) UI
functionality and separate desktop/laptop releases that are updated more
often? Once a desktop/laptop release has shown itself to be stable (in
half a year?), it (or parts of it) can be nominated as a server release?

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Posted Jun 20, 2007 18:10 UTC (Wed) by Bogerr (subscriber, #36700) [Link]

or another option - freeze at installation time. User get(choose) the latest stable enough kernel and stick with it.

Long-term support and backport risk

Posted Jun 21, 2007 13:56 UTC (Thu) by jamesh (guest, #1159) [Link]

The problem with that model is what to do about security updates.

If after the 4th update to e.g. RHEL users are on 5 different kernel versions depending on when they did the install, the distributor is going to have to produce 5 different security updates. That doesn't sound like it would fly.