On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 8:07 AM, Troy Dawson <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > This is where SL differs from both RHEL and CentOS. > > We do not force you to update to the latest release. > > If a person installs SL 6.0, they will stay at SL 6.0, only getting the > security errata, until they wish to update. > And then they don't have to update to the latest either. They can update to > 6.2 even though we are at 6.5. > > This was done for the scientists, but I've seen plenty of non-scientists > like this feature (and many that don't). This allows people to sit on a > release an not worry about some feature breaking their program. > > In fact, RedHat even started allowing people to do this, for an extra fee. Yes, Extended Update Support (EUS), that is. I should say SL is even better. RH does not support 5.5, and the support for 5.4 ends 6 months after the 5.6 release. Akemi