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Shuttleworth: Quality has a new name

Shuttleworth: Quality has a new name

Posted Apr 26, 2012 11:16 UTC (Thu) by ovitters (subscriber, #27950)
In reply to: Shuttleworth: Quality has a new name by mrons
Parent article: Shuttleworth: Quality has a new name

I'm wondering if they could switch between RHEL 6.x versions. Though I guess that might be a bit too invasive (systemd relying on new kernel versions, udev, etc).


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Shuttleworth: Quality has a new name

Posted Apr 28, 2012 23:23 UTC (Sat) by speedster1 (subscriber, #8143) [Link]

I think swapping init systems in a minor version bump would be very inappropriate for RHEL. Too much system config churn for their very conservative customer base, without a compelling excuse for making such an exception in their normal upgrade strategy.

Shuttleworth: Quality has a new name

Posted Apr 28, 2012 23:42 UTC (Sat) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]

They don't even update kernels between releases. So little chance of that.

Though RHEL7 should be fairly soon - in 2014 or so :)

Shuttleworth: Quality has a new name

Posted May 1, 2012 17:05 UTC (Tue) by BenHutchings (subscriber, #37955) [Link]

They don't even update kernels between releases.

Yes they do. And it's not just updating drivers; they've backported quite large new features, like KVM into RHEL 5.

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