OpenSSL 1.0.2 is a library used by third party software. the value proposition of SLES/RHEL/ubuntu LTS is binary compatible drop in replacements so you don't h

OpenSSL 1.0.2 is a library used by third party software. the value proposition of SLES/RHEL/ubuntu LTS is binary compatible drop in replacements so you don't have to rebuild your user land. Firefox is a run time environment for the UI for POS/kiosk systems. With horrific customer applications running on top. I can only imagine the internal discussions inside these distros wether to upgrade firefox/chromium or wether to backport patches. That's why each of the profesionally backed distributions has some strategy to mix the frozen version maintained baseline with some more recent subsystems "from the future", SUSE calls it "Leap", for example. So I'm not sure if you suggest to completely abandon frozen version supported platforms? or do you suggest improving upon the model? so fewer issues like the ones you listed occur? "even fewer" I should say, because the events are rare. painful, but rare.