On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 7:45 AM, John R. Dennison jrd@gerdesas.com wrote:
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 02:28:26PM +0100, Alain Péan wrote:
Seriously. This is _not_ the list for this. Readers should not have to wade through the morass of this thread or even spend the second or so required to thread kill it. It's off-topic. This is not an advocacy list to debate merits of one distro over another. If you like Ubuntu, fine - we don't need to know about it. If you don't like CentOS, fine, this list, however, isn't the venue to rattle on about it.
This thread and others like it are not about people not 'liking' CentOS all of a sudden and everyone know that. It is about what the people who expected a reasonably current CentOS to be available may be forced to use instead.
If you are unhappy with CentOS then you need to think that perhaps you should be using something else. And if you _are_ using something else why bother taking up my time and that of the thousands of other list members complaining about CentOS or expressing your various displeasures here?
We are pretty much all in the same boat here. If someone can authoritatively say that CentOS will never be more than a few weeks (even months, whatever...) behind upstream, then such discussion will end of its own accord. Otherwise everyone needs a plan B.
So I ask you, and all the others, to _please_ consider that the _vast_ majority of active readers of this list don't care one way or another about opinions of CentOS vs Ubuntu or hearing, yet again, about your displeasure with whatever is irritating you today about CentOS.
Sorry, but I don't believe that there is any such vast majority that isn't concerned about the situation.