On Sun, 2009-10-04 at 10:05 -0400, Mark Mielke wrote: > > RHEL and CentOS are particular bad *right now*. See here: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RHEL > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CentOS > > For RHEL, look down to "Release History" and RHEL 5.3 based on > Linux-2.6.18, released March, 2007. On the CentOS page you'll see it > is > dated April, 2007. CentOS is identical to RHEL on purpose, but always > 1 > to 6 months after the RHEL, since they take the RHEL source, re-build > it, and then re-test it. > > Linux is up to Linux-2.6.31.1 right now: > http://www.kernel.org/ > > So any comparisons between operating system *distributions* should be > fair. Comparing a 2007 release to a 2009 release, for example, is not > fair. RHEL / CentOS are basically out of the running right now, > because > they are so old. Some people call these "stability" . -- Devrim GÜNDÜZ, RHCE Command Prompt - http://www.CommandPrompt.com devrim~gunduz.org, devrim~PostgreSQL.org, devrim.gunduz~linux.org.tr http://www.gunduz.org Twitter: http://twitter.com/devrimgunduz
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