Robert Nichols wrote:
Les Mikesell wrote:
Michael A. Peters wrote:
Wow, I really must be out of the loop. New versions of RHEL every 4-6 months?
Damn. I left Fedora because their release schedule was too frequent ...
The Fedora releases change behavior wildly with each release. The point of enterprise versions is that they maintain backwards compatibility even if they add some new features.
Yes, the RHEL releases are akin to the service packs of MS Windows. You'll get some new features and a few changes, but it'll still be the same basic system. Fedora releases are more like moving from Windows XP to Vista, or more precisely, from a reasonably mature Windows XP to a Beta release of Vista.
My comment was joke - RHEL releases don't come out every 4-6 months (not for a major version anyway).
I do wish though that EPEL had a better policy, there have been several occasions when I have had had to recompile something of my own for the simple reason that EPEL versioned a shared library.
The Firefox 1.5 to 3.0 move in RHEL was at least understandable, there was good reason for that, but some of the EPEL changes - I think they leave it to the discretion of the packager but it's annoying.