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

Tom H tomh0665 at gmail.com
Sun May 23 01:58:18 UTC 2010


On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 5:24 PM, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:
> 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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