>Microsoft releases new FUCKED PATCH
>Everyone installs it
>Oh no, this is fucked
>Everyone reverts back to prior patch, which was already installed, which backups exist for

>someone makes fucked Linux commit
>everyone installs it
>oh no, this is fucked
>apparently we have to reinstall the whole thing now

I dont understand

Are we talking past each other here? Is there a separate issue you're trying to describe

dont talk again about this until you can go do your fucking research before spewing more of your bs out of your ass

that I'm somehow mistaking for this one?

@scaryred24 if i have an image of a machine before the fucked up version of linux was released, its impossible to fuck up that image

okay thats perfect

but how long will it takes before something gets buggered with that?

not even just consciously saved images. CentOS SAVES PRIOR UPDATES and you can revert to them at any point in time
**automatically**

if it wasn't buggered when you made the image, then never

you cant remotely fuck data without accessing the specific machine and fucking with the image lol

well heres where im kinda against using backup like that

so unless SJWs are going to hack America and fuck up everyone's backups, this isnt a thing

you are just archiving a 1:1 image of the os that was snapshoted at a very specific date

it might be stable enough now but what about later on down the road?

I know this will sound crazy to anyone who has never worked in IT, or talked to someone who has, but that shit happens *all the time*
People are still running earlier versions of MS Server software

like '03

there are companies with machines running on windows 3.0

so people are still running windows xp?

yes

like there are companies that are *just* upgrading to 7

well in a realistic scenario, virtual machines like that are supposed to be closed off from the general public from accessing them

think a lot of ATMs still us XP

legacy support exists for a reason

or at least they did not too long ago

thats the thing though- if the new version's fucked, people use the old one until an unfucked alternative is presented

for me once the legacy software stops functioning, you are left no choice but to upgrade to a newer variant or adopt something else

you would only hold onto legacy software until something makes it obsolete enough that it would hold no value

you've got it a bit backwards though. Enterprise software (third party at least) conforms to the needs of the consumer

the consumer being the company

which means those companies still end up supporting older versions becasue everyone's on XP/7/whatever

well you know how you get the customer to adopt newer operating systems

you choose to end support for said platforms

by not breaking the OS :^)

and that only works on new versions, which like... people only upgrade for new features/added utility

but the main point is i really dont care what you use for software on your os, i only care for the stability of the os itself

right but in terms of damage caused, a fucked patch isnt as bad as y'all are making it out to be. It happens all the time

it's unfortunate, but it's very surmountable

and then the question is: does a linux fork happen, or does mainline linux get better commits

okay in the short term, you would want to stick with what works the best for the entire scene

in the long term, when the fork gets better, you adopt that

that depends on who you're talking about, but sure