[CentOS] CentOS 5.4 and BitTorrent

Jim Wildman jim at rossberry.com
Fri Oct 16 02:17:14 UTC 2009


On Thu, 15 Oct 2009, Les Mikesell wrote:

>>
>> Could someone describe to me what the rush is? I mean what drives
>> the need that you need to have it _right now_ ?
>
> There is always the risk that a critical security vulnerability will be
> discovered with the fix only made available in an update to 5.4.
>

Obviated by the fact that these bits (or their very closely related
kin-bits) have already been in production (via RHEL) for at least a month.

I was wondering the same thing earlier...why the rush?  What new feature
is there that everyone MUST HAVE NOW!!

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