> And also take into consideration that RHEL6 is shipped with approx.
> 2.000 packages. And there are over 10.000 packages available for
> Fedora. Such a limited package scope is needed to be able to provide
> stability. And this stability is why so many loves to run
> RHEL/CentOS/ScientificLinux instead of many other Linux distros on their
> servers.
The fact that the number of packages is pretty limited in core
RHEL/CentOS also makes that with additional repos such as EPEL (or
RPMForge) you can have a lot of recent software. EPEL additionally
guarantees that the base OS won't be updated.
Then you can always decide to backport some software for a given
field, using the rest as a stable basis.
As Karanbir Singh pointed out in a recent interview in DistroWatch, it
can be much easier to innovate and be cutting edge in a given field if
the rest stays stable, instead of doing so when the whole distribution
is a moving target as in Fedora.
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