Hi Dag,

So Mark's article is wishful thinking and hoping to ride the wave that Red Hat (and Novell) are funding.

I don't really buy this ;). If he wanted to ride the RHEL wave, he could align LTS releases with RHEL releases. And since all sources are available from Red Hat's FTP server, one could freely ride the RHEL wave, including driver and feature backports.

Aligning releases benefits everyone:

• Releases of major components can be oriented towards these enterprise releases.
• Bug reports and patches can be shared.
• The systems would become more compatible. This is good for software vendors, and users (makes community support easier).

Maybe I am naive about the motives involved, but for the whole community, I think this would be a good thing.