At 2004-09-14T10:28:48+1200, Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC) wrote:
> I challenge any non Gentoo user to match the stable versions of
> packages we Gentoo users have.
It's a pointless challenge. The version numbers of a package are fairly
meaningless when comparing across distributions. Why? Because some
distributions backport large amounts of functionality from the latest
version of a package to make the features available in what would
otherwise appears to be an older version of the package.
For example, and just looking at kernel features:
- SuSE has had I/O write barriers in their kernel since 2.4.x, but this
feature has only become available in the kernel.org kernel since
2.6.9-rc1.
- Red Hat had NPTL and KAIO before any other distribution, and often has
fixes in their glibc that aren't even available in glibc CVS yet.
I could list examples like this ad infinitum.
Cheers,
-mjg
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