On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 05:00 -0600, Steve Bergman wrote:
Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:
RHEL only gets security updates between update releases. Since RHEL update releases correspond to CentOS minor versions, non-security-related updates usually only occur once every 3 months and in one fell swoop, not piece-by-piece as in Fedora.
Thank you. So, am I correct in saying that every 3 months, the packages in the updates repo get moved to the new main repo, replacing the old versions, plus bug fix releases get added to the main repo at the same time. Then the updates repo starts off empty again and new packages are issued to it for security reasons only?
---- yes that is a good understanding of it.
The other responses also provide good explanations but I would like to add the important distinction from a 'users' standpoint.
The most used 'desktop' applications are typically much newer in Fedora than in CentOS. For example, openoffice is version 2.0 on Fedora-4 where it is 1.12 on CentOS-4. This is significant as there are more features in 2.0 version but it is a bit more bloated because of it. Thus the Fedora-4 installation will probably use more memory in exchange for more features.
I get the impression that you might have caught that from your original post where you stated "One of the things the server will be serving is X desktops so there are some advantages to Fedora." I don't know if you were planning on using the LTSP system and if so, you might want to preface the same question to their list.
Craig