On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:04:11 +0000 Kevin Cowtan
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> From a system management point of view there is one very significant
> benefit to Ubuntu: The LTS releases come out every 2 years and are
> supported for 3 years. Compare this with Fedora: releases are only
> supported for 18 months.
>
The comparable distribution to LTS is centos or the official rhel
releases, which are on a 7 year support cycle. The standard ubuntu
releases follow almost the same 18 month cycle as fedora.
-Tim
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