Super long-term kernel support

Posted Mar 20, 2018 13:53 UTC (Tue) by tdz (subscriber, #58733)
Parent article: Super long-term kernel support

> It is working to create a stable base layer for civil infrastructure systems.
> It is not trying to create a new distribution.

They better do. On one hand, having a single distribution that "gets it right" is preferable to a base layer, which then gets messed up by whoever builds a system on top of it. A company or organization that cannot build a working and upgrade-able distribution on their own probably cannot built one with CIPs base layer either.

On the other hand, building a today's software 20 years from now will require today's development environments and toolchains. A single SLTS distribution would provide that.

Besides all this, it's sad that we (as in "software engineers") maintain old systems forever instead of building systems that can be replaced and updated reliably.