long term support release

[Les Mikesell]

David Mansfield wrote:

> For example, gnumeric and git, both 'everyday' tools, are missing from
> CentOS 5, AFAIK, but I'm talking about tons of other goodies.  The RHEL
> package selection process is too restrictive it would seem.

There are 3rd party rpm repositories that have pretty much everything 
you could find for fedora.

> And I'm not really complaining about that.  I think RHEL hits the target
> exactly and I don't want it to change, but it's not a real recreational
> desktop system, never was, never(?) will be.

What does that mean?  Vlc, etc.?  Fedora doesn't have that either unless 
you go to 3rd party repos.

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