J.O. Aho wrote:
> onepeanutwhistle@aol.com wrote:
>
> As Dan said, we can just speculate on why RedHat does this or that, there
> aren't anything that says that a RedHat employee with the knowledge subscribes
> to any of these newsgroups you have posted to.
>
>
>
>>I am grateful that they are keeping an eye on these workhorses for us.
>>However, Mozilla is poised to release Firefox 3 Beta 3 next week and
>>Mozilla's current Thunderbird is 2.0.0.9 for Linux.
>
>
> Beta is still a long way from stable, so it's not a good way to measure if a
> distribution is far behind or not.
> There been issues with the 2.x series and I guess these could be the reasons
> why they haven't switched, but kept on security patching the applications.
> If you want the true reason, ask RedHat as Dan suggested.
>
>
>
>>With my RHEL 5.1 Tikanga, we are cautioned to stay with versions
>>1.5.0.12 if we hope to enjoy support from the Red Hat folks.
>
>
> RedHat ain't the only one who has this policy, as long as you use the
> application part of the release, they can give you support and when you start
> to use third party applications you are more or less on your own.
>
>
>
J.O Aho,


That Red Hat employee's are not reading these Newsgroups is pure
speculation.

They just reply as Private persons.

In general RHEL will use more stable release of software, if you want
newer software go for Fedora.


Kind regards,


Jan Gerrit Kootstra
A Red Hat customer, both in private as jobwise.