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[Rahul Sundaram]

Les Mikesell wrote:
> 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.  

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.

Rahul