Rahul Sundaram wrote:
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.
I want something tested but not ancient. Neither disto provides that
except for the first few months after an RHEL cut. But I'm usually
happy with old kernel and server apps (except subversion and
dovecot...). It's generally just the desktop stuff that changes fast
enough to care about.
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