[CentOS] Re: Worth upgrading desktop to 5.1?

[Les Mikesell]

Sean Carolan wrote:
>> If you want to keep your existing kernel for a while, just change the 
>> grub default back after the update installs the new one.  Then you can 
>> switch, reboot, and rebuild the necessary stuff whenever you have a 
>> chance.
> 
> Thanks, this is probably what I will end up doing.  I tend to err on the 
> side of caution when applying updates, especially a single-user box that 
> is not exposing any inbound ports or services to the Internet.

Updates are almost never cause problems in CentOS since they have been 
through fairly extensive testing and don't introduce big changes (that 
is they stay on the side of caution already).  Perhaps you are used to 
more aggressive update policies like you would see in fedora.

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   Les Mikesell
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