On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 06:10:12PM -0700, John Jason Jordan wrote: ... > In fact, I'm not sure I like the constant upgrades at Fedora. I have > gotten no updates for my Fedora 11 since shortly after 13 came out. > Like, they cut you off. Not even security updates.
That is what Fedora is for. Cutting edge, but stiletto blade. Those of us more interested in long term support use RHEL or its clones. Which means you don't get the latest stuff, unless you choose to fold it in yourself, and disable updates for that. RHEL6 is in Beta 2, so the release is due any month now. It is approximately Fedora 13. I am using pokey old RHEL5. More precisely, Scientific Linux 5, because Fermilabs will be supporting it long after Red Hat stops doing so. SL comes with extra scientific packages that I like, as well as supercomputer software and a bunch of other hacks to support their scientific users. The world's biggest computers, and my little 4 watt Alix, run SL5. The supercomputers are why they support it for so long. When 100,000 CPUs are grinding away on a 3 year long computation, you don't want to upgrade the distro in the middle. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [email protected] Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon" Design Contracting in Bipolar and CMOS - Analog, Digital, and Scan ICs _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
