"*What is CentOS?*
CentOS is an Enterprise Linux distribution based on the freely available
sources from Red Hat Enterprise
Linux<ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/>.
Each CentOS version is supported for 7 years (by means of security updates).
A new CentOS version is released every 2 years and each CentOS version is
regularly updated (every 6 months) to support newer hardware. This results
in a secure, low-maintenance, reliable, predictable and reproducible Linux
environment."
CentOS 4 ( http://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/CentOS4 ):
"We intend to support CentOS-4 updates until Feb 29, 2012"
CentOS 5 ( http://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/CentOS5 ):
"We intend to support CentOS 5 until Mar 31st, 2014"
So if you don't want major upgrades for a while you might want to go with
the latest version. To put it into Microsoft terms... the minor version is
like a service pack. So CentOS 4.7 is really a base lined version 4,
service pack 7. You get the new features in major releases (like there are
no more "smp" kernels in 5 to deal with)
-Jonathan
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Jimmy Ezell <jezell at hmhca.com> wrote:
>
> >On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 01:07:25PM -0700, Jimmy Ezell wrote:
> >
> >> multi-processor machine ( I had to remember to specify smp
> >for the kernel)
> >
> >I repeat: why bother with such an old system? Really?
> >
> >Recall the comment from the book. That book had nothing really specific
> >to Centos 4. Why do you shoot yourself in the foot by
> >installing Centos4
> >now?
> >
> >(not to mention Zaptel)
> >
> >--
> > Tzafrir Cohen
>
> Tzafrir thanks for the comments. I am not done playing with this and in
> the end I may well use newer software as you suggest.
>
> According to wikipedia CentOS 4.7 was released OCT. 2008 (7 months ago) is
> that really consider that old? I am looking to setup a phone system that I
> would hope would not require any major software upgrades for many years.
>
>
> Jimmy
> >
>
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