[CentOS] Is every CentOS release supported for 7 years?

Robert Heller heller at deepsoft.com
Sat May 22 21:24:51 UTC 2010


At Sat, 22 May 2010 16:49:49 -0400 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote:

> 
> On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 4:36 PM, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:
> >
> > Note: this is *very* different from how Ubuntu (for example) is
> > numbered.  Base Ubuntu 'version' numbers are just the year.month of the
> > release: Ubuntu 10.4 is just the base release of April of 2010, it is
> > NOT the 4th point release of the 10th major incarnation of Ubuntu.
> > Don't confuse this 'version numbering' with how CentOS's versions are
> > numbered.
> 
> Correction:
> 
> Ubuntu LTS versions do have point releases, probably swiped from RHEL/CentoOS.
> 
> 8.04 was published at the end of April 2008 and has been updated to
> 8.04.1, 8.04.2, 8.04.3, 8.04.4 every subsequent July and January.

Yes, but the *base version* '8.04' is NOT a point release.  I stated
"Base Ubuntu 'version' numbers".  I know about Ubuntu LTS versions.

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