On 9/11/2014 12:40 AM, Karel Lang AFD wrote:
> Hi @ all,
> interesting discussion, thx for information Vladimir, this looks
> promising / interesting!
> 
> ToddAndMargo,
>  i remember when last time 6.0 was out and i remember quite a lot people
> complaining about unavailability of their favorite apps on it.
> I think - give it time, come 7.1 or 7.2 and 3rd party repos will catch
> up and all will be much easier for regular users.
> I remember ppl complaining about switch from KDE 3x->4x and now it is
> Gnome 2x->3x .. it will all settle down :]

The big problem imho is that RH has done a wholesale dump of packages
from the core to external repos. This means that EPEL etc has to take up
the slack of things that used to be included by RH itself.

RH copped out in my view by doing this - however it does reduce what
they are liable to support - again pushing this load to the EPEL folks.

I don't like this trend.

I'm not exactly sold on EL7 yet.... The massive jump to systemd as well
as being forced to Gnome 3 is too much for me. I'll be sticking to EL6
for a long time to come (hell, its supported until 2020) and hopefully
things settle down later on.

I can't see any ground breaking changes in the near future of linux that
will cause EL6 to be outdated anytime soon as a day to day OS - unlike
the EL5 -> EL6 days.

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