Scott Silva wrote:
Actually, CentOS 5 branched from Fedora 6. At that point they did a freeze on changes to the OS.
That is not true, there are plenty of changes to the kernel, including rebases's, updates, fix's and even new packages being added in and obsolete ones being removed.
CentOS-5 today has little in functional terms common to fedora6. There are still some leaf nodes from those days, but saying something like 'freeze on changes to the OS' is just wrong.