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How are these long-term support Linux distros able to provide LTS for the thousands of packages they include? If a security bug is discovered in an old version
by keewee7 4y ago
How are these long-term support Linux distros able to provide LTS for the thousands of packages they include?
If a security bug is discovered in an old version of RabbitMQ do the distro maintainers learn Erlang/OTP to patch the bug?
- IceWreck 4y agoAlma/Rocky are just rebuilds of RHEL. And afaik, Red Hat does employ people to do that.
- jabl 4y agoAnd, the package selection in RHEL is much smaller than in, say, Debian or Ubuntu [1]. There are the popular EPEL repositories with lots of extra packages, but these are community-maintained on a best-effort basis. [1] And I think the Ubuntu 'guarantees' only apply to the 'main' repository, not the MUCH larger 'universe'.