> I doubt if there is a generic answer to that question, but with RHEL6 > recently released, maybe Centos6 will be released soon enough for your > next upgrade and won't be outdated for a while. If you want the > tradeoffs of faster update cycles, the main players are fedora and > ubuntu where fedora uses the same rpm packaging and administration tools > as rhel/centos and ubuntu is more like Debian but focused on ease of > installation and use. In some cases you can take newer application > versions from fedora as source rpms and rebuild them on an older centos > - or find them prebuilt at 3rd party RPM repositories like rpmforge.
Thanks for your comments, David
