On Sun, 2011-04-10 at 09:39 -0700, Chuck Munro wrote:

Hello All,

Just a short note to add my vote for a HUGE round of applause to the CentOS team for their untiring efforts in getting releases out the door. I've just upgraded several servers to 5.6 and it all "just works".

This is one of the main reasons we love CentOS ... continue..

None of the team's work is easy to accomplish, especially when less-than-useful complaints keep popping up from thoughtless users who don't appreciate the effort, and who waste the team's time trying to respond.

I agree, and I'm partly responsible for flaming some of these threads - Hence why after all the new releases, maybe we could have a shake up - spare the DEVS from giving updates, and have a few other guys as points of contact on the list *hint*

RedHat's move to defend their support business against the freeloading distro vendors (we all know who those sharks are!) wasn't aimed at CentOS, but it has significantly increased the workload the team faces.

What move did Redhat make? This interests me, do you have a link?

Let's be patient and let them get the job done.

Kudos to the CentOS team!

Chuck

Thank You, and Good Luck Chuck :) hehe

On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 11:39 AM, Chuck Munro chuckm@seafoam.net wrote:

Just a short note to add my vote for a HUGE round of applause to the CentOS team for their untiring efforts in getting releases out the door.  I've just upgraded several servers to 5.6 and it all "just works".

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+1 for the CentOS team!

I just finished upgrading an old legacy PC, from CentOS 5.5 to 5.6 (32 bit). It only has 384 MB of RAM. There were no issues. This is my daughters box and it is dual boot, with M$ Windows XP SP3. I have always found it to be much more stable and responsive, when using CentOS, than when using M$ Windows.

I used these commands, shown in the Release Notes for CentOS 5.4, to avoid any possible issues, when upgrading:

yum clean all yum update glibc* yum update yum* rpm* python* yum clean all yum update shutdown -r now

Before beginning to upgrade, I always backup the /boot/grub/grub.conf file, because she likes it to boot into M$ Windows and I need to edit that file, after upgrading the Kernel.

OT: I could see the "fastest mirrors" plugin doing it's work, as I did the 3 "yum update" commands this morning. The Submarine Cable from Colombia terminates in the Miami, FL, USA area and the servers "fastest mirrors" selected did change, for the last "yum update" command. ------------------------------------------------------ Lanny Our Computer2.com Domain Name is For Sale on Sedo.com