Re: nvidia

[Rahul Sundaram <sundaram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Les Mikesell wrote:
> David Boles wrote:
>
> > > > Honestly if these drives were as important to me as you say that 
> > > > they are
> > > > for you and that they worked with a different distro I would have 
> > > > switched
> > > > a long, long time ago.
> > > I did - and the Centosplus kernels have not given me any unpleasant 
> > > surprises.
> >
> >
> > Interesting. CentOS 5 was supposed ti be  based on Fedora Core 6 work so
> > now I wonder just what the difference(s) are?
>
> The difference is that RHEL (the sources that Centos recompiles) cares 
> enough about their user base to maintain a stable kernel interface for 
> the life of the distribution version - which is much longer than 
> fedora's.  The down side is that applications don't get version upgrades 
> as the distro version ages, just security and bugfix updates.

That depends on the applications themselves. Some of the desktop 
applications in particular do get version upgrades too.

Rahul