A stable baseline assists more rapid extensions.

Posted Jan 28, 2025 10:40 UTC (Tue) by taladar (subscriber, #68407)
In reply to: A stable baseline assists more rapid extensions. by ejr
Parent article: Distributions quote of the week

> This particular discussion is about low-level tools. Please don't make *those* change quickly if a system must rely on them. That is horrible to administer. If they absolutely must change quickly, well, I would try to avoid using the systems they manage.

As a sysadmin I desperately long for a time when they do change more quickly because the bane of my existence are LTS distros that need me to support ten year old stuff and brand new stuff at the same time. Because oddly enough nobody who runs those distros ever wants to stick to just software released back in the ancient times when that distro major version was first released. if you told me tomorrow that every distro stopped providing support for longer than 2 years or even 1 year that would be amazing for my stress levels.