Distros like RHEL have longer release cycles because the industry they service demands them. The fact that the kernel project maintains releases as far back as 2012 only re-enforces the business.
There's no need for 'puffangelism' on this subject as OBSD is by no means alone in six-month release cycles. Ubuntu is the obvious one. -- Patrick Harper paia...@fastmail.com On Tue, 27 Mar 2018, at 07:09, Consus wrote: > On 14:46 Tue 27 Mar, Niels Kobschaetzki wrote: > > CentOS 5 is EOL since March 31st 2017 ;) > > CentOS 6 should be on extended support now which is going EOL in > > November 2020. > > Yep. And Centos7 will be around until 2024. So 4/5 of Linux distros in > production (e.g. Alpine is different in this regard) are affected by > this awful megafreeze strategy when you're stuck with an old kernel and > tools (not everything gets backported) for years. > > That's why I love OpenBSD's 6 month release cycles so much :3 >
