Rahul Sundaram wrote:
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.
OK, I suppose it's possible. But the mid-life 4.x distro is still
providing firefox 1.5.x, subversion 1.1.x, evolution 2.0.x. Are those
things you'd want on your desktop much longer?
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Les Mikesell
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