<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>On Feb 22, 2011, at 3:35 PM, Ian Murray <<a href="mailto:murrayie@yahoo.co.uk">murrayie@yahoo.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><span>Only joking. I take your point, but the critical fixes being held up for a dot </span><br><span>release isn't really very Enterprise friendly either. I think it fair to say </span><br><span>that CentOS is not suitable for the enterprise unless the servers are </span><br><span>non-public, on a secure network and the risk of internal hacking is low. That is </span><br><span>just an unfortunate nature of a rebuild project but it does make the release </span><br><span>time a sensitive matter.</span><br><span></span><br><span>Karanbir tweeted during FOSDEM that the Belgian police use CentOS. As everyone </span><br><span>who is paying attention knows that any exploit that RedHat has released an </span><br><span>updated package for post is 5.6 is sat waiting to be exploited on those police </span><br><span>servers because it won't make the CentOS repositories until 5.6 is out. I wonder </span><br><span>if the Belgian police know that.</span><br><span></span><br><span>So.... if anybody can be bothered to check the errata from upstream and want to </span><br><span>do some mischief.....fill your boots...</span><br><span></span><br><span><a href="http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http://www.polfed-fedpol.be" x-apple-data-detectors="true"><a href="http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http://www.polfed-fedpol.be">http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http://www.polfed-fedpol.be</a></a></span><br></blockquote><br><div></div><div>The best thing CentOS gives you is choice.</div><div><br></div><div>If your critical machines need updates in a more timely manner, then put RHEL on them. For those that don't put CentOS on them and save $$$.</div><div><br></div><div>Free is free and it comes free of warranty or guarantee or any other tee.</div><div><br></div><div>-Ross</div><div><br></div></body></html>