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<p style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>"Patrick Derwael" <<st1:PersonName w:st="on">patrick@derwael.be</st1:PersonName>><br>
writes:<br>
> Can someone tell me what the exact CentOS policy for end-of-life is<br>
> for 5.0?<br>
<br>
As far as I know, 5.0 itself is pretty much EOL; updates are not being<br>
released for it. 5, on the other hand, won't be EOL for quite a few<br>
years.<br>
<br>
<font color=navy><span style='color:navy'><snip><br>
</span></font><br>
I imagine that Parallel Pro will probably work on 5.2. 5.2 isn't really<br>
a new release of CentOS, but is rather an update set to CentOS 5. Think<br>
of it as CentOS 5 Service Pack 2, if you will. The vast majority of it<br>
(some desktop apps, such as Firefox, excluded) should be 100%<br>
binary-compatible with 5.0.<br>
<br>
Running 5.0 is not recommended, as you will not have security support.<br>
If keeping as close to 5.0 as possible is desired, you could probably<br>
install 5.0 and then only install the security-related updates.<br>
<br>
- Michael<font color=navy><span style='color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></font></p>
<p><b><i><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;color:navy;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>[Patrick
Derwael] <o:p></o:p></span></font></i></b></p>
<p><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Michael,<br>
The point is that Parallel supports exactly CentOS 4.4 and 5.0, Fedora 4
and 6 and RHEL 4ES and 5ES.<br>
I’m a bit stuck here!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>As far as
my other systems are concerned, (pen testing) I will reinstall them under
Centos 5.2 in the coming weeks<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Thanks!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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