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Spot on, I mean who wants 6 year LTS support? Must be big old slow enterprises and possibly banks, government agencies, so pay up.

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In practice, that would require those companies to pay for a distro like RedHat, who supports a lot of the kernel dev work.

But unfortunately everyone would rather find a way to get RH packages for free, and RH/IBM has only made the situation worse by alienating people.

aye. the second IBM took over it was clear it would be going to shit. it hasn't, totally, but im not loving the long-term direction

Windows is supported for 10 years if you upgrade on day one. No special support contract needed.

Good for them. With that kind of gumption I'm sure we'll see them running on a lot of devices, mars landers and practically the entire infrastructure of the internet in no time.

Mars Landers use VXWorks. Servers are definitely Linux.

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