On Fri, 2011-09-23 at 08:11 +0300, Veli-Pekka Kestilä wrote: > On 23/09/2011 04:29, Craig White wrote: > > CentOS only recently got out the 6.0 release and RHEL 6.1 has actually > > been out for quite a while. The question is, why would anyone actually > > install CentOS 6 because they are running 9+ months behind and haven't > > actually packaged a single security update yet. > > > > Craig > > > Maybe some of us don't have luxury of choosing what to use. I would love > to use fedora, but the 1-year reinstall cycle is too short (Especially > as it's not sure there will be someone to help users to reinstall) and > getting the old binaries ported from vms with lost sources to work with > software insisting to use latest bells and whistles not found in CentOS > 5. Only choice left for us is the CentOS 6. ---- There are choices but you seem to be imprisoned by your own chains. Scientific Linux and RHEL are very viable choices. SuSE and Ubuntu are very viable choices. Fedora has a reasonable upgrade mechanism (but yes, I don't use Fedora for servers just for the reason you mentioned). But a distro whose ability to stay current is non-existent... that seems like a fools choice. Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
