Once upon a time, Collins, Kevin [BEELINE] <[email protected]> said: > To look at the other side of the coin, take into account that this is > RHEL: the "E" stands for "Enterprise", and part of what you are paying > for is a stable, long-term support cycle. Look at other "Enterprise" > operating systems (HP-UX, Solaris, AIX) - they have a 2-5 year release > cycle (often just for minor releases!)... RHEL is no different.
Well, the other enterprise-type OSes I've worked with support in-place upgrades, and upgrade compenents during the life of a release. > If you want the latest and greatest, use Fedora or some other > cutting/bleeding edge distro... or else build the components yourself, > which is what you'd do with any of the other enterprise Oses. I still run some Tru64 servers, and HP is still updating components like sendmail and BIND on an end-of-life OS for end-of-life hardware (HP released the last Tru64 version a year before RHEL 3 was released). -- Chris Adams <[email protected]> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
