Feature proposal: Extended Life Cycle Support

[Jeroen van Meeuwen]

On 07/05/2009 12:12 PM, Jos Vos wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 12:03:05PM +0200, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
>
>> The CentOS project, or it's upstream, has a release cycle of approximately
>> three years -not a steady release cycle of three years but that's what it
>> turns out to be. This disqualifies the distribution(s) as desktop Linux
>> distributions, as desktops tend to need to run the latest and greatest for
>> as far the latest and greatest lets them.
>
> I don't completely agree that "desktops tend to need to run the latest and
> greatest" (when we're talking about business desktops), but desktops
> (especially also when talking about laptops because of HW compatibilities)
> need newer software than RHEL offers, based on now 3 year old base versions
> of most packages (except Firefox and a few others).
>

Agreed, I exaggerated a little there ;-) What I meant is they tend to 
need to run the latest and greatest *compared* to servers, and as you 
said, especially laptops and newer hardware.

-- Jeroen