Thoughts about James' Updates on Legacy list

[Kenneth Porter]

--On Wednesday, September 28, 2005 8:31 PM -0400 Tom Diehl 
<tdiehl at rogueind.com> wrote:

> 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.

Ok, thanks for the clarification.