Re: CentOS for non-tech user

[Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx>]

Karanbir Singh wrote:
> On 09/30/2009 02:11 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
>>> Solution: stick with CentOS, rock-solid and *real* LTS.
>> But that means you have to wait many years for new features - that you probably
>> want in rapidly developing desktop apps.
> 
> thats not always true - it is to some extent though. And the 'long term' 
> usually translates into 18 months. Most people, in real life - specially 
> those that are not involved with technology on a daily basis can easily 
> live with that.

I'd say 3 or 4 years would be more realistic if you look at time from 
the feature freeze on one enterprise release until the next one ships - 
which amounts to a lot of changes that other distos will include.

Even on the server side, 5.x is starting to show its age.  For example, 
I'd like to be able to rewrite absolute URL's embedded in the content in 
sites handled through apache's ProxyPass but mod_substitute was added in 
apache 2.2.7 and we still only have 2.2.3.

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx

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