CentOS vs. Fedora

[Matthew Carpenter]

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A. Khattri wrote:

| On Fri, 25 Feb 2005, Matthew Carpenter wrote:
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|> With their efforts to backfill their 2.4 kernels with 2.6
|> functionality it seems they've done some pretty funky things.
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| Not just the kernel - often security/bug fixes will get
| 'back-ported' to an older version of the software instead of just
| releasing the newer version.

But that part I can't complain about. In large corporate
environments, additional features make people nervous. They just want
the fixes, no fuss. I can see the value in that. Caldera did the
same thing. Ancient code, but it was stable and didn't break things
along the course of their life.

Still, that is the RPM-philosophy, which is why new releases are
required so often. Debian's lifecycle is so long-lived because they
do incremental upgrades all the time. That's why you probably don't
see as many "Potato" ISO's downloaded each month. Potato's been
around for a long time, and boxen don't need to be rebuilt because
they are kept up-to-date over time.
SuSE, MDK and RedHat get you to upgrade so you can get those new
features. But since the versions are all the same, many different
systems at different patch-levels have basically the same
feature-set. Don't you remember when Microsoft starting pushing out
tons of features through service-packs? People went ape. (I wasn't
referring to "features" ie. more bugs, but real functionality changes).

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