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[Rahul Sundaram]

Les Mikesell wrote:
> David Boles wrote:
> 
>>>> Honestly if these drives were as important to me as you say that 
>>>> they are
>>>> for you and that they worked with a different distro I would have 
>>>> switched
>>>> a long, long time ago.
>>> I did - and the Centosplus kernels have not given me any unpleasant 
>>> surprises.
>>
>>
>> Interesting. CentOS 5 was supposed ti be  based on Fedora Core 6 work so
>> now I wonder just what the difference(s) are?
> 
> The difference is that RHEL (the sources that Centos recompiles) cares 
> enough about their user base to maintain a stable kernel interface for 
> the life of the distribution version - which is much longer than 
> fedora's.  The down side is that applications don't get version upgrades 
> as the distro version ages, just security and bugfix updates.

That depends on the applications themselves. Some of the desktop 
applications in particular do get version upgrades too.

Rahul