Nothing stops you from running an X server on top of Wayland. That's what the Mac people are doing with XQuartz, they don't run X for their local apps but nothing stops them from running remote X apps. Sure GNU/Linux users should be able to do the same under Wayland.

Some distro might have used it, in that case that distro will have the choice of either maintaining their own branch themselves or move to a new release. Most kernel releases are only supported for a couple of months. About one or two releases per year is supported for longer than that, usually between two and five years.

Well if more people used current kernels instead of old kernels then these problems would be caught quicker with more people testing them. And it's not like the old distro kernels never fail. I have plenty of examples where both Ubuntu and Red Hat have introduced bugs in their kernel that the upstream kernel never had.

Ubuntu backports the kernels for the next four releases after each LTS. If you're on trusty you can simply install kernel 4.2 by installing the linux-generic-lts-wily package.
http://packages.ubuntu.com/tru...

Once 16.04 has been released the 16.04 kernel will be backported to 14.04, then the cycle repeats and we start getting backported kernels to 16.04 every six months.

I have an old Sun Ultra 2 server still running. I think it's close to 20 years old now. It has 512 MB of RAM, runs ZFS on Solaris 10. It's doing just fine.

They didn't build it, they just switched to GNOME Software.

Yeah it has one, the one in the C library.

CentOS has to wait until Red Hat releases their source RPMs, then they have to rebuild them, test them and distribute to all their mirrors.

Pay for a RHEL subscriptions if you want your patches fast.

RHEL/CentOS 7 used to have GNOME 3.8 and I agree that was far from perfect. Red Hat recently updated it to GNOME 3.14 in the RHEL/CentOS 7.2 update, so that should have fixed most of the issues. Sure if GNOME just isn't for you then that's a matter of taste, it's not something wrong with GNOME by itself.

By the way, try sudo yum groupinstall 'KDE Desktop' if that's what you want.

The first iterations of GNOME 3 was perhaps a bit rough but that's understandable when you're fixing so much at once. Around GNOME 3.8 things got better and since 3.14 it has been really good. If you haven't tried GNOME in a while then now is a good time to look at it with fresh eyes.

They already do that. The 2.6.32 kernel that you get in RHEL 6 is not exactly the same 2.6.32 that you get from kernel.org. There are many backported features already implemented that the upstream kernel does not include.

What about European surveillance then? I don't know if there is anything going on on the EU level but some member states (Sweden in particular) already does the same kind of mass surveillance that the NSA is doing. I would not be surprised if other states does the same thing as well.

For women that are affected by this problem it's not just a joke, it's how they are treated every single day that is the problem.

Yep, this is the case if you're for example using AFS or NFS with Kerberos authentication, which is fairly common in enterprise environments.