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Well, I noticed that CentOS/RHEL distro's have quite old versions of everything, but Debian stable doesn't seem all that cutting edge either. I find myself rea

Well, I noticed that CentOS/RHEL distro's have quite old versions of everything, but Debian stable doesn't seem all that cutting edge either. I find myself reaching out to backports and even sid to get what I need at times. At my new job, we recently had that debate -- and I was quickly overruled for recommending CentOS/RHEL. My employer is a Java shop, I can almost always find rpm and deb pkg's for most stuff we need.

rwmj 9y ago
RHEL works by backporting bug fixes and new features into the old versions. Don't go by the version numbers, check the availability of features instead.
- deadbunny 9y ago
  Backporting features and not bumping versions is redicilous though, especially when that means v3.1 of upstream is different to v3.1 in your repo.
  - rwmj 9y ago
    RHT's market cap is over $20 billion today so that says it's providing real value to customers.
  - pferde 9y ago
    You're just not their target audience. Others are willing to throw money at Red Hat for this "rediculousness", though.
jlgaddis 9y ago
FWIW, you can find newer versions of some software packages via "Software Collections".