Newest Gnome versus LTS

[Liam Proven]

On Thu, 18 Jul 2019 at 11:38, <J.Witvliet at mindef.nl> wrote:
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> Hi Liam,
>
> You replied by raising lots of topics... (hence commenting here)

I hope it's helpful.

But I need to say: I find your reply very hard to follow.

This is not a forum. It is a mailing list. (So I do not know what you
mean by "commenting here".)

Please follow proper traditional email etiquette. Quote *only* the
parts of the email that you are responding to, and put your reply
*underneath* those parts. That is what I am doing here.

Do not include anything else you are not responding to; trim it out.

Quote text should have

 >

... in front of each line.

Many Microsoft email clients can't do this. If so I suggest switching
to a working email client. Outlook is badly broken.

> We oversee the use of many tens-of-thousands instances. Therefor stability, is our second concern (after security)

OK.

> We do want to progress from 16.04 forward, as we need to support newer hardware.

OK.

> Though we observed instable behavior with regards to default gateways, and name-resolving in combination with tunnel product.

I do not know what "tunnel product" means.

> Something we never observed in 16.04. This "might" be related to the ever expanding influence of systemd...

It could be, yes. However, it is hard to avoid these days.

For some thing I am now using Devuan. It is a fork of Debian with no
systemd and nothing that requires systemd.

You might wish to evaluate it.

> The support-period of any release is not such a big deal, as long as we are ahead of any dead-line.

OK.

> My goal is to provide quarterly (or even more monthly) new ready-to-run images, with as much of the latest drivers and patches.
> And rather take smaller steps, than the bigger leaps between each LTS

Ah, I see.  Then maybe the LTS releases are not for you.

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