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