[CentOS-devel] CentOS 7 and release numbering

Fri Jun 20 11:43:30 UTC 2014
Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org>

On 06/20/2014 12:23 PM, Manuel Wolfshant wrote:
> adding mere digits to the name will not help in any way. as far as I 
> have seen in #centos, most of those who do not update stay at a 
> particular version in time because they do do not WANT to update not 
> because they are not familiar with the concept or the need to update. 
> "it works as it is, we are afrain that an update might break something". 
> what most are not familiar with are unchanged ABI and backports. But 
> changing the naming scheme will not help with that in any way.

but focusing on the /7/ would be .. also, lots of people drop into
#centos running 6.2 or 5.6 because they were not aware that they were
too far adrift. Switching the focus to CentOS-7 cant possibly cause more
confusion.


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