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These stable packages just postpone the inevitable technological debt and when you have to pay the debt, it's too late. I really hope these stable OS just die.
by ezoe 6y ago
These stable packages just postpone the inevitable technological debt and when you have to pay the debt, it's too late.
I really hope these stable OS just die. Some debt could be avoided if RHEL/CentOS didn't exist.
- rhencke 6y agoBeing incredibly boring and old ends up being a beautifully stable foundation to build on. The idea is to pay the debt as an organization on a fixed schedule that allows for years of stability in between. For larger organizations, this can be far less work and less strife than a rolling upgrade would, as the resources to test such upgrades are often unfortunately limited and expensive.
- zinekeller 6y agoPerfectly well-said. Some developers wants the greatest and latest, but they forgot the operational costs can be higher (see: cloud and its tendency to cost more than others). At the end of the day, there are companies who needs to standardize on a system for a long time and CentOS delivers it just fine.