[Novalug] Speaking of Centos - SuSE equivalent?

Paul W. Frields stickster@gmail.com
Mon May 17 15:42:36 EDT 2010


On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 01:40:35PM -0400, James Ewing Cottrell 3rd wrote:
> Well, look at it this way, as a Spectrum from Red (Stable) to Purple 
> (Exprerimental).
> 
> RHEL is Red (of course) and Fedora is Purple (as far away as you can 
> get). Centos is Orange, close to RHEL, yet with SOME differences. To 
> carry the analogy further, Scientific would be Yellow, as their Major 
> Intent is to be RHEL Compatible, yet add SOME extras.

This isn't fully accurate.  Certainly Rawhide, which is the full-on,
bleeding-edge development tip of Fedora, is definitely violet
(purple).  An Alpha of Fedora should be more like indigo, the Beta
more like blue, and the final closer to green.  Some of our recent
work on policy change around updates should mean far less deviation
from a solid green for a stable release, especially when it comes to
the common platform functionality.

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