[CentOS] Design changes are done in Fedora

[Ned Slider]

On 29/12/14 01:52, Always Learning wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2014-12-18 at 10:30 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
>
>> ..............  The design changes are done in Fedora, by
>> people who apparently never liked unix or consistency, not the people
>> using Red Hat or CentOS that already have things working that they
>> would like to keep working the same way across upgrades.
>
> What type of large commercial organisation lets undisciplined people
> make adverse changes detrimental to the reputation and ultimate success
> of its 'stable' commercial product. Since Enterprise Linux is supposed
> NOT to be Windoze, consistency is very important especially for the
> paying (R.H.) customers. It is also much appreciated by its devout fans
> and the hardworking guardians of the Centos cloned version.
>
> * The dramatic upheaval in C7;
> * The claimed life-span of C5 truncated by no more normal upgrades;
> * The changes introduced in C6.6, during the lifetime of an allegedly
> stable C6 product;
>
> all seem to suggest Upstream lacks a clear, reliable and dependable
> strategic policy (or what some call a 'sense of direction').
>
> Happy New Year to all to everyone.
>

The stability comes _within_ a product release. I don't think it's 
realistic to expect el7 to be the same as el6 or el5, otherwsie what's 
the point of the newer releases. You have 7 years of support / 
consistency (now 10 years). What business model do you have that you 
can't build around a product guaranteed to be consistent/supported for 
the next 10 years?