Stabilization is for Distibutors

Stabilization is for Distibutors

Posted Oct 14, 2004 6:44 UTC (Thu) by wmshub (guest, #3995)
In reply to: Stabilization is for Distibutors by giraffedata
Parent article: Quotes of the week

If you are using the Red Hat enterprise, then they clearly do *NOT* put things out without a lot of testing. RHEL3's latest kernel is based on 2.4.21 - with, of course, a very large number of patches. RHEL isn't planning on releasing a 2.6-based version until around next Spring - a year or more after 2.6 was out!

So I think that, for enterprise products, Red Hat does test very well, and very differently from kernel.org. I haven't used SUSE et al, but I would guess that they would do the same.

Now if you're on Fedora, you are getting something with a lot less testing...but then, if you really want high stability (for example, if your business depended on the system's stability), then you wouldn't be on Fedora.

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