On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 22:25 +0100, Jos Vos wrote: > On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 09:48:20PM +0100, Benny Amorsen wrote: > > > RHEL and its derivatives, just like SUSE and Debian Stable, are > > comparatively conservative. I need e.g. working QinQ, and that means > > a 2.6.23 kernel. There's also a lot of software missing in RHEL -- > > like OpenSwan and Asterisk. > > For the latter you can use EPEL (but not all is there yet, of course). > > The first is true, but IMHO being (more) conservative in related to > having a LTS release, so I don't see that much difference between > a suggested Fedora LTS and RHEL/CentOS. The #1 difference is 1000's of packages. The #2 difference is RHEL being an ultra conservative distro. Wrt. life-time and features, in comparison to Fedora, it's the other extreme. > Yes, but this sounds a bit like wanting to have a bleeding-edge distro, > with a huge amount of packages, and with long time support. > > Good luck finding a company wanting to build/maintain such a distro ;-). It could be called Fedora - The only thing Fedora lacks is an extended life time. Ralf -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
