Thoughts about James' Updates on Legacy list

[Tom G. Christensen]

Tom Diehl wrote:
<snip>
> I do not know where you got the impression that RHEL only gets security updates
> but that is not true. What is true is that whatever version of a particular
> package a given version of RHEL is released with is the version it will have
> throughout its lifetime. Once a version is over 5 years old [1] then it goes
> into maintenance mode and will only get security updates. Before that it
> gets quarterly updates. Granted you will not get the latest and greatest
> versions once it is released but a lot of packages have various enhancments
> backported into them during the quarterly updates.
>
<snip>

> [1] I think it is 5 years but it might be 7 years. I am too lazy to actually
> look it up right now but I think you get the point. :-)
> 
For reference the full story is here:
http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/errata/

-tgc