>>>> Dear Russ, > > [huge snip] > >> Look ... if you understand how build work, and I know you do, then you >> understand that one can not release updates that are built on 4.8 >> without releasing 4.8. >> >> If you need the updates faster, feel free to pay Redhat for them. >> >>> There - I feel so much better getting that lot off my chest :) >> There are always other distros if you don't like this one ... > > Exactly the *wrong* response. I wonder if responses similar to this > loses potential users or loses existing customers. Personally, it > disgusts me. I'd like to double this: It'd be exactly the same (or one of two) response(s) that one would get from the OpenBSD guys, at least the less social ones that don't have a clue to control themselves. The other one would be 'Shut the f*** up and code!'. After a really long odyssey I ended up (almost) where I started: Using NetBSD and CentOS (at least, what's OSS). Best, Timo