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[Les Mikesell]

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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