On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 02:18 -0600, Steve Bergman wrote: > I'm trying to come to a decision between CentOS 4.2 and Fedora Core 4 > for use on a server. One of the things the server will be serving is X > desktops so there are some advantages to Fedora. > > However, one thing I can't help but notice is that the patch volume for > FC4 from Oct 11 2005 thru the present compared to CentOS 4.2 for the > same period is about 5 times greater. In fact, since June, there are > 899 RPMs in the FC4 updates directory for FC4 which seems absolutely insane. > > CentOS is a smaller distro, but not that much smaller. Also, I > understand that CentOS's parent distro (from a prominent North American > Linux Distributor) is supposed to be better tested before release than > Fedora. But still, there must be some other factor to explain the > disparity. Like CentOS only releasing a patch for security problems and > not bug fixes or something like that. > > Could someone enlighten me? 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. -- Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazquez at ivazquez.net> http://centos.ivazquez.net/ gpg --keyserver hkp://subkeys.pgp.net --recv-key 38028b72 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060127/da8d4b51/attachment-0005.sig>