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And people pay money for that?

• lmm 10y ago
  Yes. There are people who value support for a fixed version for 10 or more years much more than they'd value "rolling" support for a "latest" version that they have to keep updating their apps for.
  • srssays 10y ago
    But none of the packages they use will be up-to-date. e.g. Django dropped support for 2.6 years ago and will drop support for 2.7 soon.
    • ubernostrum 10y ago
      People who use RHEL this way do not keep any third-party packages up-to-date. If that means a decade on Django 1.2, well, they spend a decade on Django 1.2 -- Red Hat will backport security fixes into a Red-Hat-packaged Django 1.2.
• bandrami 10y ago
  Absolutely. Even on the gratis side, Debian stable gets very, very cranky if you mix in anything new. Devs hate it; ops love it.