[user5994461]

It's not irresponsible to use a perfectly fine OS.

What is irresponsible is for Docker to purposefully avoid to mention that it has endless issues on these widely used OS.

The 2.6.X is used in CentOS/RHEL 6, which is the standard in numerous enterprises.

It is not a 2.6 kernel by the way, redhat is backporting tons of stuff from the 3 and 4 branches.

[luord]

> It's not irresponsible to use a perfectly fine OS.

The first problem with this statement is the idea that there's such a thing as a "perfectly fine OS". We don't even need to consider containers, the longer an OS has been in the wild, the longer its potential vulnerabilities have been found and exploited.

Windows XP is a perfectly fine OS; using it nowadays is irresponsible.

> What is irresponsible is for Docker to purposefully avoid to mention that it has endless issues on these widely used OS.

That responsibility doesn't and should never fall on the developers of an application. The extent of one's responsibility as a developer is to define the recommendations for its use. Anything beyond that is entirely on the user.

One would go insane if one had to wonder every single operating system someone decided to use one's application in.

> It is not a 2.6 kernel by the way, redhat is backporting tons of stuff from the 3 and 4 branches.

"Backporting stuff" doesn't make it not the 2.6 Kernel, it very much is.

[ibotty]

>We don't even need to consider containers, the longer an OS has been in the wild, the longer its potential vulnerabilities have been found and exploited.

I challenge you to find exploitable bugs in its kernel. Windows XP is not supported anymore, while RHEL 6 is.