Thank you for the super fast responses and for the push in the right direction!<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 12:31 AM, Kevin Krieser <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:k_krieser@sbcglobal.net">k_krieser@sbcglobal.net</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
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On Jul 7, 2010, at 6:10 PM, Matthew Valentino wrote:<br>
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&gt; I&#39;m relatively new to CentOS. I ordered a VPS and requested CentOS 5.5. As I was installing packages, I noticed that some of the versions are pretty old - for example, Postfix is v 2.3 in the repo (and, according to Postfix&#39;s website - no longer mainted). Is this a security risk as the current version is 2.7.1?<br>

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&gt; Building and compiling Postfix from source seems to cause additional problems with yum, so I&#39;m not sure what to do other than perhaps switch to something like Fedora. Perhaps there&#39;s a third-party repo with updated packages that I haven&#39;t found?<br>

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&gt; Thanks,<br>
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</div></div>During the support time of the OS, security updates will be made.  If not by the package maintainer, then by the upstream Linux vendor.<br>
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Sometimes, it is by backporting fixes.  Sometimes (Firefox for example), an upgrade to a more current version will be made.<br>
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