What is the downside of sticking with 5.2
rray_1 at comcast.net wrote:> What is the downside of sticking with 5.2 >It is EOLed. That is all fixes to 5.2 are 5.3. So there is little choice unless you take on the whole management issue. BTW, I had some systems that would simply NOT do an install with the 5.2 boot CD. I HAD to install with 5.1 then upgrade them to 5.2. So I only recently finally pulled my local 5.1 repo.
rray_1 at comcast.net wrote:> What is the downside of sticking with 5.2No security fixes. And the cool kids on the block will laugh at you. Ralph -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090402/2a156f52/attachment-0003.sig>
on 4-2-2009 6:53 AM rray_1 at comcast.net spake the following:> What is the downside of sticking with 5.2Your hair will fall out and your ears will ring constantly. You will gain weight that no amount of dieting and exercise will be able to get rid of. You will be the laughing stock of all the "cool" CentOS kids. Hackers will infiltrate your systems and set up free porn sites. The porn will be really lame and crappy and full of viruses and rootkits. ..... -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 258 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090402/0a05d9ff/attachment-0003.sig>
Ralph Angenendt wrote:> rray_1 at comcast.net wrote: > >> What is the downside of sticking with 5.2 >> > > No security fixes. And the cool kids on the block will laugh at you.Look at today's announcement. Now I don't know if the security bugs fixed where in the old 5.2 kernel or only in the newer 5.3 kernel, but it makes that point about staying current with a distro.