In defense of Redhat, they had Mozilla 1.4 in their Redhat Network
before Mozilla 1.4 was marked stable in Gentoo's portage. I think
Redhat is doing a great job of staying current. I no longer use Redhat
because I just find it hard to reconcile RPM dependency issues.
On Sat, 2003-07-26 at 16:05, Brad Smith wrote:
> > That of course brings up the subject of Red Hat, Mandrake, and SuSE
> > Enterprise. Personally I have a hard time believing that anyone would pay
> > that much for a obsolete system. Obsolete did you say. YES. It may not be
> > obsolete the day they compile it but it definitely is not up to date the next
> > day so what else would you call it after 2 to 3 years; the expected time
> > before they plan on issuing update.
>
>
> ...
>
> huh?
>
> Are you saying that RH, Suse, etc's Enterprise products only release updates every 2-3 years? If
> so, I think you're mistaken, but I don't want to launch into a big explaination if I
> 've just misunderstood you.
>
> Short version: The reason (for example) Red Hat Adv Server looks like RH 7.2 is because it is an
> enhanced version of the distribution based on software that has been around the block long enough
> to have had all the kinks worked out. Bug fixes, security fixes and feature updates are released
> regularly, though, so it stays up to date in all the ways that count.
>
> --Brad
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