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Re:What I learned while securing Ubuntu (2015) by chrisper on Friday June 10, 2016 @10:44PM (#11881753)
I am not comparing the numbers in a mathematical way (I am not saying 16 is better than 7). I meant more like that packages get updates to next major versions when the OS jumps to the next major version. Somehow, I felt that Ubuntu releases new major versions more often than RHEL. But checking the release dates it seems that I was wrong.
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Re:What I learned while securing Ubuntu (2015) by merb on Saturday June 11, 2016 @02:56AM (#11882412)
Actually 7 is released on 2012 while 16.04 is released on 2016. You could compare 14.04 and 7 but not 16.04 and 7. Eventually you could compare CentOS 8 when it comes out this year.
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Re:What I learned while securing Ubuntu (2015) by sciurus on Saturday June 11, 2016 @11:04AM (#11883672)
No, RHEL 7 was released in June 2014, not 2012. There's no sign of RHEL 8 yet either; it would be quite surprising for it to come out this year.

https://access.redhat.com/articles/3078

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Re:What I learned while securing Ubuntu (2015) by JdeBP on Saturday June 11, 2016 @07:58AM (#11883136)
> Actually 7 is released on 2012 while 16.04 is released on 2016.

Observe that that was chrisper's original very point.

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