[Centos] CentOS 4 installer kernel version

Jesse
Thu, 03 Mar 2005 23:43:44 -0000

> The 2.6.9-5 kernel has security issues and RedHat released a security
> update for that kernel.  It is the normal CentOS policy to take the
> latest packages at the time of an ISO build and include them in the
> distro.  (This is the same thing that is done for the quarterly update
> releases).
>
> Driver disks that are only for the 2.6.9-5 kernels, will indeed, not
> work with the 2.6.9-5.0.3 kernel.

Thanks for the clarification, Johnny. As someone used to ''as close to
RHEL'' as possible, it''s one of the adjustments I''ll
have to get used to.
:)

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Jesse <j@lumiere.net>