On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 11:39 AM, Patrick <patrick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I've had nothing but trouble with BSD/Linux over the past year or so. > > I've been on Centos 6.4 for about a half day now and I am loving it. > > I am just wondering though, how does a 7 year support cycle work? > > I see that there is libreoffice which is kinda new. Is this because open > office is under oracle's influence? > > I am on gnome 2 right now, will I wake up one day in the next 7 years to > gnome 3 ? I really don't want to. Will I just have gnome 2 + bug fixes? > > If so how does the community do this if the gnome people drop support > for gnome 2. Basically CentOS rebuilds RHEL source, so whatever happens upstream will happen to CentOS. But, the point of an 'Enterprise' version is that working interfaces don't break within the supported life of the release. There is obviously some conflict between fixing problems and breaking things when the individual application/library developers have no regard for backwards compatibility in their updates but a lot of effort goes into it. So, unless there is a Gnome3 with perfect backwards compatibility, you'll just get bug fixes until at least CentOS 7. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos