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