On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 08:05 -0400, Courtney Thomas wrote: > Please pardon my ignorance, but of what value is that for a non- > commercial > or average user ? For a desktop OS I do not think much. For a server os the values lies in the fact that it is supported much longer than Fedora Core or other distis. With the long life you can keep it updated longer.