Thoughts about James' Updates on Legacy list

[Tom Diehl]

On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Kenneth Porter wrote:

> --On Wednesday, September 28, 2005 11:21 AM -0400 James Kosin 
> <jkosin at beta.intcomgrp.com> wrote:
> 
> > I'm not knocking RedHat, Fedora or Fedora-Legacy this is a good
> > point.  But, some of us need more than just patches to get us by.
> > I know, If you really want the latest, why not update to FC4...  The
> > problem there is that this is a server.  I shouldn't have to strip the
> > system down and rebuild it every 6-months or so.  I also don't have
> > the money or budget to spend lots of money on RedHat ES.

Maybe centos, whitebox or one of the other rebuild distros would help.

> I don't think ES would solve that issue anyway. ES would have the same 
> policy as legacy, providing only security updates. It's just got more 
> manpower to do so. You still wouldn't get new features. For that you need 
> an OS upgrade.

I do not know where you got the impression that RHEL only gets security updates
but that is not true. What is true is that whatever version of a particular
package a given version of RHEL is released with is the version it will have
throughout its lifetime. Once a version is over 5 years old [1] then it goes
into maintenance mode and will only get security updates. Before that it
gets quarterly updates. Granted you will not get the latest and greatest
versions once it is released but a lot of packages have various enhancments
backported into them during the quarterly updates.

IMO, it really depends on what the actual problem you are trying to solve is.

Regards,

Tom Diehl		tdiehl at rogueind.com		Spamtrap address mtd123 at rogueind.com

[1] I think it is 5 years but it might be 7 years. I am too lazy to actually
look it up right now but I think you get the point. :-)