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Re: sl6.1 and sl6x
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Dr Andrew C Aitchison <[log in to unmask]>
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Dr Andrew C Aitchison <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 18 Sep 2011 08:15:08 +0100
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On Sat, 17 Sep 2011, Tanmoy Chatterjee wrote:

> Have really got confused after going through your entire post - so I
> am asking again - is it better to enable SL6X than SL6.1?

If you stick with SL6.1 (or SL6.2 or ... ) you will get security
updates only. If you go with SL6X you alse get feature enhancements.

(Technically SL6.1 may also give you a few essential non-security
updates but that is a confusing detail.)

-- 
Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison		Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge
[log in to unmask]	http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna

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