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The problem with RHEL backporting security fixes (and Debian to a lesser extent) almost makes version numbering irrelevant too, though.

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Agreed, even more so because RedHat doesn't just backport security fixes, but also features (one example is the btrfs stuff in RHEL6, which, according to a developer, is from Linux ~3.8 IIRC).

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