On 6/19/08, Scott Silva ssilva@sgvwater.com wrote:
on 6-19-2008 1:15 PM Rob Townley spake the following:
Security > Stability when it comes to web browsers and i wonder if 1.5 is more secure than 2.14. i wonder when 1.x will not have security patches anymore. rh must document that somewhere and i will have to find it.
That is probably the reason for the new version. Most of the time RedHat only issues new versions when backporting becomes difficult/impossible. They are almost as protective as Debian has been. A web browser crashing on a distro originally designed for servers was probably a low priority for them. They probably assume that a browser is usually used to read docs or download packages.
I agree with Scott about the philosophy involved. Although Upstream sells a Desktop version of RHEL, the vast majority of installations are on Servers and Desktop users are a much lower priority. Those of us who are Desktop users are lucky, with what's coming in 5.2.