Jerry put forth on 2/3/2011 5:19 AM: > FreeBSD had the 2.8 release in its ports system a few days after it was > officially released. The 2.9(beta) release will be released into the > ports system shortly. The original 2.8(beta) was available almost > from its inception. The speed with which a package is made available to > a system is directly proportionate to the amount of time and effort a > maintainer wished to invest.
Well, I think there's a bit more to it than that. Some distros have various policies in place that hinder rapid inclusion. That said, if Sahil were associated with the Debian project instead of or in addition to FreeBSD, we'd probably see current Postfix backports in Debian more quickly. :) >> CentOS 5.5, their latest, ships with Postfix 2.3.3, which hasn't been >> supported by Wietse for quite some time. A new install of CentOS 5.5 >> gives you an officially unsupported Postfix, thought I'm sure CentOS >> will support it. >> >> Now _that_ is "lagging behind something awful". > > CentOS's support for current software is an abomination. I wonder why > anyone takes it seriously. I've pondered this myself, and the conclusion I come to is that they are ignorant newbs who are enamored with the "free" version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. They look at the price tag of RHEL and think they're getting something good for nothing. They just don't realize RHEL is not "good" and is years behind current, and that CentOS is months to years behind RHEL. I think I summed it up best when I stated CentOS uses an outdated distribution as their upstream source. -- Stan
