If you're current with updates, you're on 5.2,

Heh! I'll throw yum at it, thanks!

Here at work, we still use RH9.0 on production servers that go into the
field (not broke, dont fix it). If we ever need to do a major update due to

You can rely on this: it's broken. If security is unimportant, fine. Otherwise, look at the nearest CentOS.

They're on closed networks with no direct internet connection. I believe they also only expose ssh and a couple house-written daemons. I do keep ssh manually patched from tar balls on the servers.

Undoubtedly, there's probably logged-in-user-rights-elevation problems, but if they get a login, the important bits of the system are already accessible so... meh.

-Will