Respins for newer hardware

[Matthew Flaschen]

Carsten Aulbert (list) wrote:
> As a long term Debian and then Ubuntu user I know quite a bit about
> these, but looking at the features CentOS is providing, I somehow doubt
> that ubuntu is able to compete in this league.

That's never really been Ubuntu's target.  Debian users can run testing
if they're daring.

> If I understand the CentOS page correctly, they (or RHEL) maintain
> binary compatibility on ABI level throughout a release and respin cycle,
> while dapper will "only" give you security updates/bug fixes for its
> lifetime. Am I right about this?

You're right about Dapper (but there is an optional backports
repository).  I can't vouch for RHEL/CentOS.

Matt Flaschen