New distro question

[Ben Scott]

On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 9:40 PM, Bruce Labitt <bruce.labitt at verizon.net> wrote:
>  Does Centos keep up with security updates?

  CentOS tracks RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) very closely.  Red Hat
provides updates for seven years after initial release.  So RHEL 2.1,
released in 2002, and roughly contemporary with Fedora version
negative three[1], should be approaching end-of-life next year -- a
few months after Fedora 8 is EOL'ed.

[1] What we call "Fedora" used to be known as "Red Hat Linux".  RHL
officially ended with version 9.  So call RHL 9 "Fedora 0".
Continuing further back, RHL 7.2 was being developed around the same
time as RHEL 2.1.

-- Ben