Why should one upgrade Fedora whenever a new version is released?

[David]

On 7/15/2013 4:42 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Jul 2013, lee wrote:
> 
>> Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net> writes:
> 
>>> mhh thats why so many companies still using WinXP i guess
>>
>> Maybe there are other reasons for that, like that is isn't upgradable
>> and/or that it is expensive to switch.  It's also possible that other
>> software they are using works best with that, maybe because the other
>> software hasn't been upgraded yet.
> 
> In my case, I found Fedora very expensive to upgrade.
> Even before complete failure, installs were a pain.
> I spent days or weeks wanting to kill something.
> Installing CentOS went perfectly.
> I did net install, something I'd never done before,
> because my DVD drive wasn't working at the time.
> 
> If I want something that *I* cannot install on CentOS,
> I'll just have to find a distribution earlier in its release cycle.
> That might be the time to consider virtualization.
> 
>> Unless I missed it, nobody has described a particular use case yet in
>> which it is obvious that it is good to use CentOS.  Upgrading holds its
>> risks as well as using software that cannot be upgraded.  The future
>> cannot be predicted.  So how do you make a decision like between using
>> Fedora and CentOS?
> 
> Is there a particular use case in which it
> is obvious that it is good to use RHEL?
> 


You are aware the Red Hat and CentOS are made from Fedora?

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  David