Rolling release model philosophy (was Re: Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule (was Re: f18: how to install into a LVM partitions (or RAID)))

[Adam Williamson]

On Sun, 2012-11-04 at 12:18 -0500, Simo Sorce wrote:
> On Sat, 2012-11-03 at 00:36 +0100, Michał Piotrowski wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > 2012/11/3 Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com>:
> > > Note
> > > that neither Red Hat nor Microsoft actually support major version
> > > upgrades for their operating systems
> 
> Adam, this is plainly untrue for Microsoft, they always supported
> upgrading to the next version.

As someone already pointed out, 'support' is an overloaded term. They
'support' upgrades the same way we 'support' upgrades - they provide an
upgrade mechanism for you to hang yourself with. As was clarified later,
the point is that they don't guarantee it will work, and in practice, it
doesn't work reliably enough for anyone doing anything really critical
to rely on it. And they don't.
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