Thread:Talk:Distributed Robocode/Skotty's Distributed Robocode Server/reply (9)

You know what we really need at this point is an OS that doesn't change (or rarely changes), with the exception of security patches and new hardware support. Modern OS's already do everything a typical user needs them to do. The constant changes, new versions, etc just lead to what I will call "technical exhaustion". Tons of time gets spent by people just trying to keep things "up to date", which is fine for tech geeks who have the time and love the latest things, but it costs a lot of people and a lot of businesses a lot of time and money when the older versions were working fine for most of them.

From the OS development company's standpoint in a market economy, I can understand. The desire for them is to keep releasing new versions for people to spend money on, and to encourage upgrades by canceling support for older versions. But don't you think it's about time for a stable Linux release whose purpose is to be a low cost long lived low maintenance OS? Something where updates are just for security patches and to add new hardware support, and it's all handled by automatic updates? Something that will stop costing companies millions of dollars per year in server maintenance / software upgrades / compatibility testing? Something where even if you installed the OS 2 years ago, it's still up to date thanks to the automatic updates, and you can easily install and run Java 7? Hm... or would that make too much sense?