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Re:SUSE Preserves Choice in Enterprise Linux by Forking RHEL by coldtea on Tuesday July 11, 2023 @06:32AM (#36678980)
>The time (some years back now, it was a 5.10 patch and a 5.8 rpm) they mis-backported a perl patch to work around a bug in a deprecated CPAN module for one of their enterprise customers and in the process caused a 2x-30x slowdown of lots of other newer code (including the library that had replaced it in the majority of production environments by that point) was 'fun'.

That ONE time might have been fun, but with Arch, Ubuntu and so on, you get to have such fun times all the time.

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Re:SUSE Preserves Choice in Enterprise Linux by Forking RHEL by ylyn on Tuesday July 11, 2023 @09:04AM (#36680412)
With Arch you don't get such fun times because Arch doesn't generally backport patches. They just update.
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Re:SUSE Preserves Choice in Enterprise Linux by Forking RHEL by coldtea on Tuesday July 11, 2023 @10:21AM (#36681358)
That's where the fun times come from.
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