[PLUG] Re: Fedora Core 3 EOL...

Keith Morse kgmorse at mpcu.com
Tue Mar 28 05:33:20 UTC 2006


Jason R. Martin wrote:
> New device drivers for common hardware (particularily server hardware)
> are very often back-ported to RHEL update releases.  RHEL is supported
> for five years from release, and if you give them enough money they'll
> probably support it for longer.
>
> What I don't know is whether CentOS/Scientific Linux/etc. follow the
> RHEL update releases, and thus also gain the back-ported device
> drivers for newer hardware.

Speaking only about CentOS, For the most part the answer is yes. At
least to the extent that the source rpms that RedHat releases contains
the said back-ported devices and passes their QA process.



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