Steve Bergman spake the following on 1/27/2006 12:18 AM: > 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? > > Thanks, > Steve Bergman Think of Fedora as a giant public beta test, and the Enterprise versions as the result. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!