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. On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 3:08 PM, Lanny Marcus <lmmailinglists at gmail.com> wrote: > On 6/19/08, Rob Townley <rob.townley at gmail.com> wrote: > > Why do distributions put in very old versions of Firefox - 1.5 when 2.0 > > has been out for a year or more and 3.0 was just released. > ><snip> > Rob: This distribution, is for the Enterprise (where the majority of > installations are on Servers) and the priorities are Stability and > Security and a Long Life, and not "the latest and greatest", that you > would find in Fedora Core or Ubuntu, 2 examples among many > distributions. The drawback here is that we are slow to get new stuff, > but that is intentional. Lucky here, that Upstream is including some > much newer stuff, in v.5.2! :-) Lanny > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080619/134bb741/attachment-0005.html>