FEDORA and RHEL

[James McKenzie]

On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 12:52 PM, JD <jd1008 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 02/27/2011 11:38 AM, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
>> On Sun, 27 Feb 2011 11:04:50 -0800
>> JD<jd1008 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>
>>> Can anyone point me to any docs or info on the
>>> process (and frequency) of updating  RHEL with
>>> the bugfixes and new features added to the Fedora
>>> repos?
>> When there is a new major RHEL release mostly.
>>
>> So, RHEL6 just came out not too long ago, and was branched/based off
>> Fedora 12/13.
>>
>> RHEL5 was based off Fedora Core 6.
>>
>> There's likely cases where changes in Fedora packages are backported
>> into RHEL releases, but those are harder to quantify.
>>
>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/RHEL
>>
>> has more information.
>>
>> kevin
> Thanx a lot.
> I was hoping that the RHEL updates
> would have included the  tried and true, and very stable
> mods made in the  fedora releases/updates.
>
> To wait from FC6 until FC12/13 to produce RHEL6
> is an awfully long time :(
> So, I guess I will not be installing RHEL6.
You could always try Debian, it is based on code that is two to three
years old, but it is very stable.

Rahul brought up a very good point.  Fedora is targeted towards folks
who want/need the latest and greatest in technological advances and
who are willing to risk not having system access for a little while.
RHEL/RHAS are targeted towards commercial users who cannot tolerage
any outage time or minimal outage time.  I work with RH systems that
are in such an environment so I can state that Fedora definitely would
not work for us.  And we look forward to installing RH6, when it is
approved.

James McKenzie