On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 10:16 AM, Chris Adams <[email protected]> wrote: > Once upon a time, Collins, Kevin [BEELINE] <[email protected]> said: >> To look at the other side of the coin, take into account that this is >> RHEL: the "E" stands for "Enterprise", and part of what you are paying >> for is a stable, long-term support cycle. Look at other "Enterprise" >> operating systems (HP-UX, Solaris, AIX) - they have a 2-5 year release >> cycle (often just for minor releases!)... RHEL is no different. > > Well, the other enterprise-type OSes I've worked with support in-place > upgrades, and upgrade compenents during the life of a release. > >> If you want the latest and greatest, use Fedora or some other >> cutting/bleeding edge distro... or else build the components yourself, >> which is what you'd do with any of the other enterprise Oses.
I guess it has to taken into account the amount of changes that had to go into RHEL6 this time, there is a switch to KVM, ext4, and other major changes _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
