When to update?

[javajunkie]

> . Instead, take a look at CentOS. The new CentOS release
> due out in a month or so is based on Fedora Core 6 and will be supported for
> almost a decade.

Hmm, it's not based on FC6 but rather RHEL5.

As for the seemingly suspicious view of CentOS, they would argue they
are actually helping.

For instance, in the new RHEL5 beta, redhat is said to "take .fc6 stuff
as is and used it (not necessarily compiled on their el5 builder" (quote
from the centos list).  CentOS is trying to put a beta together with
everything compiled on the el5 builder and of course finding things that
need to be done to do that.

I can't say in actuality if the information they are turning up is
working it's way back to RH (in bug reports or whatever), but some
people suggest it is and that such info will be eventually needed to
turn out a final RHEL5.