Les Mikesell wrote:
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.
It is not merely possible. It happens all the time.
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?
That depends on what you want out of the desktop. If you want the latest
and greatest at all times, Fedora will serve that need. If you prefer
targeted fixes, commercial support etc, RHEL will meet that need better.
Rahul
