As far as I understood it, the whole point of Red Hat was that they could sell you a system which would get security updates for a decade. And during that decade, they’d try their very best not to make any breaking changes.

But when they just start churning out stuff like this, they’ve lost the plot. If Debian, largely staffed by volunteers, can back-port patches to older packages, why is this beyond an organisation with the might of IBM behind it?

Just slap a new middle digit version in there, virtually guaranteeing to break whatever people have deployed on it and causing chaos. Why not eh.

Can we please all agree that we don’t need so many Linux distributions, and that Dead Rat (yes, yes it’s a cheap shot and an ancient joke, but I don’t care) is first up against the wall when the revolution comes?