On 15Feb2022 17:12, Barry Scott <barry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >Centos 7 is frozen to versions of packages from about 7 or 8 years ago. >The whole point of centos is to support old versions of software for the long term. >It’s not my choice for desktop os because the apps are so old and hard >to get help with. CentOS and RedHat release stick with the version which came out with their release (7.0, 7.1 etc). That gets you stabilty, often wanted on production systems. Security fixes (and some bugfixes) get backported by RedHat. You only get new package versions (versus new builds of the stable versions) when you upgrade releases. Stability is the release objective for these distros. Fedora, OTOH, is fast moving. Cheers, Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
