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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