[CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

John Hodrien J.H.Hodrien at leeds.ac.uk
Thu Apr 7 09:39:13 UTC 2011


On Thu, 7 Apr 2011, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:

> Just newer kernel and newer core packages that can drive newer
> applications. CentOS 5.5 kernel and core packages are 3-4 years old in
> the (Linux) world that dramatically changed since then.

I wouldn't refer to the 5.5 kernel as 3-4 years old as there are significant
backports to the EL5 kernel such that 5.5's kernel is measurably different to
5.0, and even further away from 2.6.18.

jh



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