Re: [CentOS] CentOS & eclipse

On 12/26/2013 10:50 AM, Steve wrote:

My understanding was that CentOS was generally about a year out-of-date.

When a major RHEL version is released, the major.minor versions of most all components are frozen for the life cycle of that major release, this ensures package compatability, so if something is released for EL6 it can expect to run with any EL6.x update.

major EL versions have a 5-7 year support life cycle, we're nearing the back side of that for EL6, which came out in 2010. RHEL7 is still in beta (and running a year or so later than I would have expected according to their historical release cycle).