[ale] CentOS repositories question

[Jim Kinney]

Sounds like the same old PHB problem. "We will use this application because I read an advertisement and called them and they bought me a really nice lunch. You must make it work."

Again, the problem is not with RHEL/SuSE for have a point-in-time release and backports system. This is the best way to provide a long life for complicated software that PHBs pay huge $$ for. The problem is with the PHBs of the software vendors who don't do their due diligence and maintain their product properly over the lifespan of the point-in-time release. It's also the fault of the PHB who paid for the code and failed to get an enforceable support plan that included prompt releases to accommodate base system updates.

In fact, because the developmental cycle of RHEL and others includes public discussion, pre-release alpha and beta versions and public viewable bug databases, there's no excuse for third party vendors to not keep their product current.

On May 11, 2015 11:02:23 PM EDT, Jeff Hubbs <jhubbslist at att.net> wrote:
>On 5/11/15 9:17 PM, Jerald Sheets wrote:
>> Unfortunately, to Jeff’s point, most serious app vendors (and even
>some not-so-serious ones) will only support the “biggies” of the Linux
>world such as RedHat & SuSE (and to a lesser extent Debian) even though
>CentOS is binary compatible to RHEL…. >shrug<
>>
>> As much as you and I and everyone else on the list would like all our
>favorite distros supported, the market just won’t go there.
>Which in my view was a state of affairs common in the 1980s and 1990s 
>that we sought refuge from with Linux and other Open Source software. 
>I 
>got tired of being painted into platform corners with this or that
>piece 
>of software; it's a shame people have let themselves get right back
>into 
>that regime again.
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