Am 14.07.2013 01:25, schrieb lee: > From what I've been reading, CentOS isn't upgradeable at all. If that's > true, I'm surprised you're using it. the idea behind a LTS distribution is that you have *10 years* update-support and stay on exatcly the software versions which was shipped as you installed it meaning *no* updates with incompatible changes at all the point is: * you get security updates over the whole life-cycle * you use it if you do not need new features over the lifecycle * security fixes are backported to the shipped version * so you have simply *no need* to upgrade CentOS is a 1:1 RHEL clone http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux#Life-cycle_dates _________________________________________ so, and on a Fedora installation after one year the support ends, you will never see any security update after that you can hardly compare a bleding edge distribution and CentOS * two differnet usecases * two different worlds
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