On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 12:08 PM, Wouter Verhelst <wou...@debian.org> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 04:21:17AM -0400, Tom H wrote: >> >> Did Linux development move as quickly as it does now? >> Did users experience more problems or failures when running those >> dist-upgrades? > > RedHat also did not support upgrades back when they did not wait four > years to do finish a new release. They do not support them, because > they *choose* not to support them, instead telling people to reinstall. > > Yes, that makes it easier for them to wait four years between releases. > But I think you have cause and effect swapped around.
I've never even tried to dist-upgrade RHEL but I have dist-upgraded RHL and Fedora. It was/is perfectly do-able but they both had/have shorter release cycles. IF Red Hat had felt that there was a market for dist-upgrade support, it could have offered it for a extra fee, just like it offers an extended support subscription for companies that want to stick to want to stick to a release beyond the standard EOL or to a minor release. It does offer an *unsupported* upgrade via anaconda.
