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Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Mon Oct 29 23:10:56 UTC 2007


Rahul Sundaram wrote:

>>> 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.

I want something tested but not ancient.  Neither disto provides that 
except for the first few months after an RHEL cut.  But I'm usually 
happy with old kernel and server apps (except subversion and 
dovecot...). It's  generally just the desktop stuff that changes fast 
enough to care about.

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    Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell at gmail.com




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