Am 18.09.2009, 16:57 Uhr, schrieb Charles Marcus
<CMarcus@media-brokers.com>:
On 9/18/2009, Matthias Andree (matthias.andree@gmx.de) wrote:
Ubuntu 8.04 is a long-term support release (desktop three years, server
five years), and it's natural that users will use that.It is also natural that critical servers should always be running the latest stable release of critical applications, of course after a short but suitable internal testing cycle...
I have never understood anyone who would use a distro for critical applications that forces them to use 3+ year old software.
POLA - principle of least astonishment. You cannot possibly oversee what
breaks for a gazillion of users if you update. It's not as though the
dovecot branches had strictly been regression-fixes only (as GCC is, for
instance).
-- Matthias Andree