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doesn't Fedora drift fairly well ahead of RHEL with new major releases of components from upstream with every release? Especially with the kernels getting so far out of sync with between the two.
As far as kernels go, I wonder if it is at all practical to do what Arch does and provide a linux-lts package. Maybe they do and I am simply not aware of it. I haven’t used Fedora in a while.
Yeah, but that is Red Hat's problem then, no?
Well I wouldn't go around asserting software that I develop works on RHEL on account of me testing on Fedora because even with 13 month of package updates for Fedora, a supported RHEL release could be running a kernel 4 years older than any currently supported Fedora version. If I have customers who demand RHEL compatibility, I have to either lose that business or test on RHEL