On 10/31/07, Paul Johnson <pauljohn32@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The unexpected bug introduced by frequent updates (much less > re-installs) have lost some of their charm for us. > ... > In the past I've resisted adopting these longer lived distros because, > well, they get outdated and frustrating because they don't > interoperate with the rapidly changing part of the Linux world. > ... > So maybe I don't want Scientific Linux or CentOS. Wish the > RedHat/Fedora Legacy group had not disbanded. For security updates on > a one year old distro, it was very handy. I agree very much with your sentiment. On our servers we run Scientific Linux. The desktops run Fedora. The servers are great, but admittedly we use a much smaller set of software. With the desktops, its either do updates frequently or do them 500 at a time. I'd be a lot happier if the kernel was updated less frequently (like with the server.) Right now, I think the happy medium might be with the latest SL, and a few applications like Firefox and Thunderbird compiled by hand in /usr/local/...
