[Fwd: Wikipidia - Goodbye Red Hat and Fedora]

[Dmitry Butskoy]

Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 9:52 AM, Dmitry Butskoy <buc at odusz.so-cdu.ru> wrote:
>>
>>
>> An environment, which is considered stable, can be "untypical". Ie.
>> "untypical production stable environment".
>>
>> All the years RHL/Fedora is used at my work, we was compelled (from time to
>> time) to even port some future versions/features of N+1 distro to the
>> current N distro. Because the features required for our "untypical"
>> environment have appeared somewhere closer to the bleeding-edge...
>>     
>
>
> Sounds like you want Centos + Extras then.

No.

EPEL (Extras) is not bleeding-edge (AFAIK its policy).  And often enough 
we need a new version of some non-Extras package (ie. samba, openldap etc.)


~buc