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An exceptionally well explained rant that I find myself in total agreement with.

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[–] baronvonj@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

doesn't Fedora drift fairly well ahead of RHEL with new major releases of components from upstream with every release? Especially with the kernels getting so far out of sync with between the two.

[–] UrbenLegend@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

As far as kernels go, I wonder if it is at all practical to do what Arch does and provide a linux-lts package. Maybe they do and I am simply not aware of it. I haven’t used Fedora in a while.

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, but that is Red Hat's problem then, no?