Lennart Sorensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We would be lucky to get a Debian update in 18 months, > never mind 12.
RHEL 6 (mid-2009?) looks to be well over 24 months after RHEL 5 (2007 March). > To me Enterprise Class means "There is someone to yell > at and blame if it doesn't work who is responsible for > fixing it". Service Level Agreements (SLAs), yes. But fixed ABI/API is a biggie for RHEL. > It means nothing more than that. Many other things factor into SLAs, but that's basically the gist of it, other than ABI/API. > It certainly does not imply better tested or higher > quality, I find many Fedora releases to be top-notch. Basically those 1-2 releases where they don't change core things (just like non-.0 RHL releases before it). They also try to backport kernel fixes too, to try to maintain some ABI/API. For Fedora releases where they "trailblaze" and push adoption, including all the groundwork to get things working that other distros will adopt later, the exact opposite. But this is no different than .0 RHL releases prior. There are still people complaining about RHL 5.0 and the GLibC change, RHL 7 and the ANSI C++ change, etc... It all depends. > although for many if not most enterprises, the > responsibility part is often more important. Actually, I've found ABI/API to be more of a requirement. _______________________________________________ lpi-examdev mailing list [email protected] http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev
