[Gllug] Free Vs enterprise OSS releases

[Yashpal Nagar]

Hi there,

As we know Redhat and SUSE few major vendors for enterprise class Linux 
distribution do also have their free/community driven distributions like 
Fedors & Opensuse. Now lately we have noticed that few softwares 
releases become rapidly available from Fedora, Opensuse rather than 
principle vendor SUSE or Redhat itself in their enterprise class OS.

e.g apache 2.2.4 rpms are available from Opensuse but not yet available 
from Novell for their enterprise class of OS. 
http://software.opensuse.org/download/Apache/SUSE_Linux_10.0/x86_64/

What i want to know here is, as a practice should one go ahead and 
install (on top of RHEL/SUSE) such updates/packages from Fedora or 
Opensuse, whenever they become available? if yes what could happen to 
the server when you apply service packs which lately become available 
from Redhat or Novell, service pack installation would't comlain & run 
with no trouble? if no - then what are the reasons?

Regards
Yashpal


PS: Sorry for cross posting :)

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