Rudi Ahlers wrote:
Sorry to be dumb, but what is the point of calling it Centos-5.2?
Think of it as a rebase with added kernel drivers, some newer features and so on, while still basically being CentOS 5.
Or - if you come from the windows world - CentOS 5, service pack 2.
But does one actually get Windows XP SP3 simply by repeated "Windows Update"s?
Windows XP service pack 3 was released recently, Windows NT 4 had 6 service packs
There is probably a misunderstanding here. Windows XP Service Pack 3 was a separate upgrade. IIRC, it did not come as a standard update. One was told SP3 was available, and how to get it. But this is a minor point.
As I understand it, by simply continuing to say "yum update" at regular intervals, my server will change itself from 5.1 to 5.2 . It seems a bit like my age, which will automatically increase by 1 on Thursday.