[rescue] [geeks] Solaris being discontinued? Rumors flying

[Peter Corlett]

On Sun, Dec 04, 2016 at 06:15:11PM -0500, Phil Stracchino wrote:
[...]
> Red Hat baffles me at times. They continue to deploy dinosaur-era releases of
> util-linux, MySQL, I'm sure folks can name other packages ... and then they
> push out bleeding-edge unproven garbage like systemd, or ship an
> engineering-prototype gcc snapshot as an official system compiler after being
> SPECIFICALLY TOLD that it is not releasable yet.

You can't sell lucrative support contracts if you ship software that works as
expected.