Spoken like someone who has never had to maintain a large production system. This notion is handily disproved by the market, though. Red Hat and Canonical enjo

Spoken like someone who has never had to maintain a large production system. This notion is handily disproved by the market, though. Red Hat and Canonical enjoy commercial success and mindshare precisely because they provide stable long-term support platforms on which others can build software. Most of Canonical's worth is actually embodied in their commitment to LTS releases, which provide a sweet spot between stability and the glacial pace of RHEL.