Robert Nichols wrote: > Les Mikesell wrote: >> Michael A. Peters wrote: >>> Wow, I really must be out of the loop. New versions of RHEL every 4-6 >>> months? >>> >>> Damn. I left Fedora because their release schedule was too frequent ... >> The Fedora releases change behavior wildly with each release. The point >> of enterprise versions is that they maintain backwards compatibility >> even if they add some new features. > > Yes, the RHEL releases are akin to the service packs of MS Windows. You'll > get some new features and a few changes, but it'll still be the same basic > system. Fedora releases are more like moving from Windows XP to Vista, or > more precisely, from a reasonably mature Windows XP to a Beta release of > Vista. > My comment was joke - RHEL releases don't come out every 4-6 months (not for a major version anyway). I do wish though that EPEL had a better policy, there have been several occasions when I have had had to recompile something of my own for the simple reason that EPEL versioned a shared library. The Firefox 1.5 to 3.0 move in RHEL was at least understandable, there was good reason for that, but some of the EPEL changes - I think they leave it to the discretion of the packager but it's annoying.