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" .
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