Tom Diehl wrote: <snip>
I do not know where you got the impression that RHEL only gets security updates but that is not true. What is true is that whatever version of a particular package a given version of RHEL is released with is the version it will have throughout its lifetime. Once a version is over 5 years old [1] then it goes into maintenance mode and will only get security updates. Before that it gets quarterly updates. Granted you will not get the latest and greatest versions once it is released but a lot of packages have various enhancments backported into them during the quarterly updates.
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[1] I think it is 5 years but it might be 7 years. I am too lazy to actually look it up right now but I think you get the point. :-)
For reference the full story is here: http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/errata/ -tgc -- fedora-legacy-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legacy-list
