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silvestrov on Jan 28, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Long term support considered harmful

It's a lot easier with a 5 year window for PostgreSQL: Kernel developers have to support all kinds of weird semi-buggy hardware that they can't buy in their country, they have to make the kernel work with badly written GPU drivers , and they have to deal with interrupt-level code which is notoriously difficult to debug.

jeffdavis on Jan 29, 2015 [–]

The author's primary example for the "LTS is bad claim" was glibc, which is not a kernel.

Are you saying the "LTS is bad claim" only applies to kernels and other things very close to the hardware (closer than a database)?

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