long term support release

[Rahul Sundaram]

Les Mikesell wrote:
> 
> Fedora has a unique situation in this respect though. By policy RHEL 
> will not add new features in updates and since the upstream app 
> developer generally only cares about going forward, that means someone 
> has to do the work of backporting bugfixes minus features into something 
> that sort-of resembles the originally shipped app version. Fedora, 
> however is perfectly free to fix the fedora version by shipping an 
> update to the current app version, accepting the upstream fix in it 
> fully-featured form.

The situation is not as black and white as you make it out to be. RHEL 
has occasionally pushed new features as updates and Fedora has done 
backports.

Rahul